Yihong Zhou

White Light (View from Rogers Estate)

oil on shellacked cardboard

4″ x 5″ (unframed), 8.5″ x 9.5″ (framed)

2022

Plein air painting of the view of Clinton, New York as seen from the Rogers Estate. Choosing to use white as light and eschewing black in favor of saturation as shadow rather than faithfully depicting what is seen with the eye, this palette choice pushes the use paint as a more symbolic medium for depicting the world around us. Painting is framed in a style to replicate the interior of the Rogers Estate library, the room in which it was painted. This piece is both the painting itself and the whole object as an artifact.

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