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Graceful Madness began in late July, 2022.
GRACEFUL MADNESS BEGAN AS A SECRET PERSONAL PROJECT IN JULY OF 2022. THE INTENTION WAS TO MAKE ART FOR ART’S SAKE. THE ANONYMITY OF THE PROJECT FREED ME AND I FOUND MYSELF CREATING WITH PURE ABANDON AND FEARLESSNESS. BEFORE THEN, ANYTHING I MADE STAYED SAFELY LOCKED AWAY, TWITTER WAS WHERE I CHECKED FOR EARTHQUAKES AND INSTAGRAM WAS FOR ANIMAL VIDEOS. I HAD FOUR TWITTER FOLLOWERS…
With the combination of analog, digital and iphone photography, digital painting & illustration, AI image generation and the tools available within adobe processing, these digital photographic manipulations result as somewhat obsessively layered Mixed Media Art.
From the Collections, unique Graceful Madness APs include paint, wood, canvas and other found materials.
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Han Bing’s works are painted navigations, reconfiguring signifiers of disorder in a gradual evolution towards abstraction. Her practice is informed by her observations of city life in Shanghai, Los Angeles, New York, and most recently Paris, taking “urban camouflage” as primary source material—particularly the ripped posters that cover subway stations and metro stops. The ensuing paintings explore what is held and concealed within these fields of fragmentation, and it is from their disruptions, deformations, and errors that Han Bing’s distinctive visual language takes form.
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Abstract figurative neo expressionist surreal realist contemporary digital traditionalist analog street photographer mixed media artist
Contemporary mixed media artist - Homage to, portrayal of, study of time through - Larger themes of mortality, longing, fragility, & resilience, restraint - Debut - Untethered to any specific medium - Beyond established constructs of art - Wit, irony, playful, allure, seduction - Invite & entice viewer
People often ask about my process - it’s not secret, just difficult to explain. And a little psychotic. Each piece is uniquely made. Many are made from each other, or several pieces combined, and so on. I add and remove components as I go, switching between mediums and platforms multiple times and back again. I digitally paint and draw details into the art, then will often start the entire process again. Layers of images, each with a life of their own, coming together to weave a new storyline and new characters, who are somehow still the same in essence. We are all connected in the end.
This series was made using a Nikon F1, Nikon D7500, Fujifilm X100V, iPhone, iPad, Adobe, Dalle2, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion.
When it comes to the AI, I’m not a prompter in any sense. I use combinations of images, different every time, and do my best to confuse and disturb the learning software to yield different results. I have a vision in my mind from the start, the software is another instrument I use to achieve my goal. It can take thousands of edits to get there. I work on many of these pieces 24/7 for months.