Artistic Origin
Before CCH ART NOW™ became an educational framework, it began as an artistic inquiry into body, perception, symbols, and material worlds.
From landscape to cognition. From color to attention.
Cloud Study · Early collage
FROM ARTISTIC PRACTICE TO CCH
HOW THE
INQUIRY
EVOLVED
CCH ART NOW™ began from my experience of moving across cultures, cities, languages, and systems of seeing. My early paintings explored landscape, color, memory, and hybrid identity through vivid brushstrokes, layered surfaces, and mixed media.
For me, landscape was never only a place. It was a structure of perception—a way to understand how space shapes identity, memory, and the body. Through painting, I developed a visual language between Chinese and Western traditions.
Over time, this artistic inquiry expanded from the organization of landscape toward the conditions of attention itself. What began as a personal search for identity became a broader investigation into how people construct perception, sustain attention, and rebuild inner structure through creative practice.
CCH grows from painting, but is no longer limited to painting. It continues the same artistic inquiry—from landscape to cognition, from color to attention, and from personal memory to human capability.
EARLY CLOUD
STUDIES
A small group of early works shows the cloud moving from painted landscape toward repeated form and material construction.
PILE UP i&II
12 × 12 in. · Oil on canvas · 2011
Rain
36 × 36 in. · Oil on canvas · 2011
One Piece
46 × 46 cm · Oil on canvas · 2011
WEARABLE CLOUD STUDY
FROM IMAGE
TO BODY
The cloud later moved beyond painting and collage to become a wearable form—something that could enter the body, movement, and everyday space.
A friend generously helped me test the wearable cloud. The bowing figure—a recurring gesture in my paintings—carried the work from image into body and movement. Here, the gesture becomes an invitation: welcome into our world.
Wearable Cloud Study · Studio documentation · Taiwan
Landscape
identity
material
perception
attention
cch
SELECTED
WORKS
Three works marking the movement from personal visual language toward the perceptual and material questions that later shaped CCH.
LANDSCAPE &
HYBRID IDENTITY
Early paintings became a place to negotiate cultural movement, memory, and belonging. Landscape functioned not simply as subject matter, but as a structure through which identity could be reorganized.
EARLY LANDSCAPE PAINTING · SELECTED WORK
COLOR AS
STRUCTURE
Landscape became a way to negotiate cultural movement, memory, and belonging. Color and repeated bands organized an inner geography rather than describing a fixed place.
Cloud Movement began as a process of joining and separating two canvases. The physical action became a reflection on borders, connection, and transformation. Like clouds moving freely across territories, the work questions the boundaries humans create around land, culture, and identity, revealing a larger continuity beyond fixed systems.
The cloud’s layered lines move between free imagination and human-made structures. Tape created temporary boundaries; after separation, paint revealed movement beyond them. Like lines of contemporary writing, the forms suggest how creativity takes shape within—and moves beyond—the systems that organize its expression.
SELECTED EARLY WORK
MATERIAL / PERCEPTION
LOCKER SET
Institutional surfaces and repeated forms shifted the inquiry toward how environments organize perception. Material became evidence of memory, use, classification, and lived experience.
Locker Set, oil painting on canvas, 2013
FROM PERCEPTION
TO ATTENTION
The artistic practice gradually moved beyond the arrangement of images toward the conditions that shape human attention itself. This transition became the foundation for CCH as a studio-based framework.
Cross the River, 108 × 78 cm, collage on paper, 2015
ATTENTION / CCH
FROM IMAGE
TO INQUIRY
The artistic practice gradually moved beyond the arrangement of images toward the conditions that shape human attention. This transition became the foundation for CCH as a studio-based framework.
Relax, 108 × 78 cm, collage on paper, 2023
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READING
ARTISTIC ORIGIN
An extended reflection on hybrid identity, visual language, and artistic formation across cultural contexts.
ARTIST PRACTICE
Early visual research into attention, fragmentation, independent judgment, and the formation of an artistic position.