Working Projects Annie Guo Hetong by Hetong Guo https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm Themes: the internal external struggles, Metaphysics,and Spiritual en-us 2020-12-05 17:42:38 UTC 2025-08-17 17:46:42 UTC hello@padlet.com Tower hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/990413011 The act of ascending or reaching.

I like the idea of Babylon or the state higher than we can logically explain. Much like in the painting I like to display a more ambiguous idea of wether the figures are climbing to a better or worst place. In my works I tend to leave some context blank so the viewers have the freedom of interpretation. ]]> 2020-12-05 17:49:29 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/990413011 Tower 2 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/990415884 2020-12-05 17:51:53 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/990415884 Tower 3 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/990416677 2020-12-05 17:52:33 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/990416677 Unknown author. Icon of the Transfiguration. 12th century icon at Mt. Sinai (St. Catherine’s Monastery)  hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/990427210 I am really interested in biblical art (almost primitive) or symbolic totem like works. These works often shows a story board display and metaphorical approach in figures.]]> 2020-12-05 18:01:21 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/990427210 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1002385196 2020-12-09 14:55:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1002385196 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1002387336 2020-12-09 14:55:31 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1002387336 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1002388593 2020-12-09 14:55:45 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1002388593 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1002391432 2020-12-09 14:56:18 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1002391432 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1002395249 2020-12-09 14:56:59 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1002395249 Material hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1002403920 I’m sewing different type of canvas and fabric to make an almost ritualistic drum. Many, ritual instruments uses animal skin and hide to make the shaman become one or part of nature. In ways the nature guides them into a higher realm. 
I want to use cloth and fabric because it’s what people wear now and part of an identity to people (parting us from other living things) . Also, giving it a more artificial and industrial feeling.]]> 2020-12-09 14:58:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1002403920 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1002407265 2020-12-09 14:59:21 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1002407265 Praying hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1014846569 To some the act of praying is seen as a mirror like the Sigmund Freud said in “Totem and Taboo” Wrote:
 -'I did not want my mother to die; the totem wanted her to die.
-An projection of an figure 
-The act of praying can be seen as an mirror or ideal 
a projection of inner mental life onto the external world
Although what he wrote in some parts is seen as controversial; however, some of his points to me projects some aspects of Psychological mindset.

]]> 2020-12-14 05:14:39 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1014846569 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1014864885 The surrealist environmental distortion and how the figures are becoming almost like an inanimate object is quite interesting.
I am experimenting on how I am able to make the person almost seem like a “shadow” or in ways a figures being]]> 2020-12-14 05:26:59 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1014864885 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1014870508 2020-12-14 05:31:09 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1014870508 Projection Sample hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1014944739 I want to give the viewers a sense of surrealist atmosphere. I want to use a projector and screen it over the piece: In ways its kind of like a hole or leak to another environment. ]]> 2020-12-14 06:21:39 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1014944739 Act of Praying hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1018705789 2020-12-15 03:23:37 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1018705789 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1018709907 Some experimentation I did on figures:
The distortion and the morphing between space and self.
-Much like Antony Gromely’s idea of space and human I am intrigued with how we are one with our surroundings.

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Storytelling
Subconscious

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I am researching and experimenting with the different aspect of human subconscious and psychology. The theme of my work delves into a metaphysical state of a group of people. I like to keep my works ambiguous much like the title of this group “Alongside my Hidden” I want to achieve an almost blurred line between what is seen and not in art. ]]> 2020-12-15 03:47:53 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1018743547 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1018754789 The reason why I used a simple canvas to portray this work is because I want to display an almost fresco renaissance art style painting while its nailed to the wall (which in ways reference a more biblical undertone)
However, the context of the painting is somewhat more modern and new.]]> 2020-12-15 03:56:04 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1018754789 Myth of primitivism by Susan Hiller hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1018790816 “object contains within itself a reference to its own transcendental quality。For example，primitive art is seen as often containing some indication of a supra-human form with which it is associat- ed。A'good'piece of primitive art will often contain，therefore，a mixture of human and animal attributes”- page 78

“The products of particular societies are used to emphasize particular primitivist attributes。For example，the supposed relationship between the primitive and the child may be objectified in the bold bright animals or anthropomorphic figures.” Page 80
Outsiders or insiders?
“On the contrary，many works that chal- lenge these conventions，or in some way seem to disobey them are constitutionally anonymous; the categories of psychosis or automatism entail an erasure or oblitera- tion of the subject; yet many of the works that exemplify these are valued purely.” Page 45]]> 2020-12-15 04:23:37 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1018790816 My Interpretation of Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1018803949 Although Frued said some points that are very helpful, stating the ideology and mindset on the worship of totem and figure. However I do not agree with some of his points. First, the way he he describes family figures and how the descendants of tribal members. Through his analysis I believe it’s a little too dead set. For instance, Freud believe in a delirious state when in rituals and religion, but to my interpretation this action may be an unconscious state of aspiration. In most cases these rituals are used to appease and heal, which I think is the opposite of what Freud believed as an “obsessive impulse and threaten of wish”.]]> 2020-12-15 04:33:16 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1018803949 Nuer religion hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1022961360 2020-12-16 06:18:44 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1022961360 Sigmund Freud: Religion hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1023000136 2020-12-16 06:45:40 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1023000136 Key Terms hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026602634 2020-12-17 04:20:37 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026602634 Artist and artwork references hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026618990 2020-12-17 04:32:17 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026618990 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026626929 2020-12-17 04:38:00 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026626929 Essay and Literature hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026627707 2020-12-17 04:38:35 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026627707 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026630091 2020-12-17 04:40:19 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026630091 Ink and water experimentation hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026632224 2020-12-17 04:41:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026632224 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026646085 2020-12-17 04:51:08 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026646085 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026646710 2020-12-17 04:51:31 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026646710 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026648101 2020-12-17 04:52:22 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026648101 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026648766 2020-12-17 04:52:48 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026648766 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026764311 2020-12-17 06:12:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026764311 Susan hiller hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026773647 Although written in book form this piece, can be viewed as an art piece. Hiller uses automatism to 
Create this work, showing viewers an almost absurd yet spiritual language. However, this piece is written in an unconscious state, yet when read it does have an underlining theme of poetry and story. This work also has a political stand point, as well as a satirical concept of propaganda.]]> 2020-12-17 06:19:10 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026773647 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026872198 2020-12-17 07:20:32 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026872198 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026891902 2020-12-17 07:30:33 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026891902 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026894251 2020-12-17 07:31:52 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026894251 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026948520 2020-12-17 08:00:15 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026948520 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026950100 2020-12-17 08:01:03 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026950100 Anlsem Kiefer hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026952680 “Anselm Kiefer's monumental body of work represents a microcosm of collective memory, visually encapsulating a broad range of cultural, literary, and philosophical allusions—from the Old and New Testaments, Kabbalah mysticism, Norse mythology and Wagner’s Ring Cycle to the poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan.”]]> 2020-12-17 08:02:28 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026952680 Anslem Kiefer hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026956582 2020-12-17 08:04:39 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1026956582 Papilotti Rist hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1027000992 2020-12-17 08:27:18 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1027000992 Pixel Forest hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1027003465 2020-12-17 08:28:23 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1027003465 Pixel Forest hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1027011192 The visual of the waters have a lot of textures. The viewers seemed to be inside an almost aquarium like environment making the audiences engulfed into the artwork.]]> 2020-12-17 08:32:15 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1027011192 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1027023481 2020-12-17 08:38:31 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1027023481 Selected installation hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1027042274 2020-12-17 08:47:37 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1027042274 Hidden and sight hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1129296138 This project is inspired by my collective name “Alongside my Hidden” it’s a piece were material wise I used an see through cloth binding it into an canvas. This work hints on the idea of the human eye what we see may be there but not. In ways, our eyes can see the 'blue field entoptic phenomenon’,which means a glimpse of white blood cells in your eyes. This phenomenon is really interesting because when we see an object it might not really be there. This links to the subject of what our eyes really see and how our individual minds can bring the hidden to light, if we were to focus.]]> 2021-01-26 22:47:33 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1129296138 Hidden and sight 2 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1483920716 Much like the mysticism I have been researching about this aspect of our eyes is almost like a channel or a layer hidden within sight something we see but cannot touch. Entoptic originates from Greek which means “things perceived within vision”.]]> 2021-05-03 05:41:31 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1483920716 Reaching hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1483930828 2021-05-03 05:46:37 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1483930828 Paleolithic Art hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1487753122 Many cave paintings or paleolithic art comes from entoptic Phenomenon. In many artworks there are portrayals of  lines and squiggles, almost like an energy or soul of sorts. This phenomenon in spiritual sense are sometimes achieved through psychedelia or altered state of mind; However, there are natural  occurrences through our retinal and blood cells in eyes that becomes interpreted through otherworldly.   ]]> 2021-05-04 01:04:21 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1487753122 Paleolithic entoptic phenomenon hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1487762703 2021-05-04 01:08:39 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1487762703 Entoptic forms hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1487785958 2021-05-04 01:18:40 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1487785958 Floaters hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1487803351 http://www.eye-floaters.info/floaters/entoptic_phenomenon-entoptische_erscheinungen.pdf]]> 2021-05-04 01:25:40 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1487803351 Cueva de las Manos, Perito Moreno, Argentina. hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1487888713 2021-05-04 02:02:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1487888713 KIKI Smith hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1491140485 Smith's drawings portrays the natural and animalistic nature of self and human]]> 2021-05-04 18:26:09 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1491140485 "The Garden" Kiki Smith hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1491157205 2021-05-04 18:29:34 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1491157205 Sueno hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1491231780 2021-05-04 18:45:19 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1491231780 Alongside My Hidden hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1500875107 Through discussions we came to an agreement of making an art book zine with bits of poetry and automatic writing]]> 2021-05-07 02:35:00 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1500875107 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1500879986 Due to covid and the difficulties of viewing and gathering in public. We thought that the best way to view the zine is through download and printing it out in PDf form adn assembling it yourself]]> 2021-05-07 02:37:12 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1500879986 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1507621712 2021-05-10 03:34:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1507621712 Alongside my Hidden hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1507624912 We were thinking of  distributing the zine through printing the qr codes and taping it on sidewalks and public posts. I would be an fun way of interacting with viewers without the physicality of being there.]]> 2021-05-10 03:36:08 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1507624912 Reaching hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1507629622 I am not familiar with using after effect so this is somewhat of an outline of what my artwork is suppose to be. I wanted to project the video onto the painting, hence why I made the canvas using a silk like fabric. However, from my previous work the display didn't look very good in video( it was very blurry and viewers couldn't really see what the painting was). ]]> 2021-05-10 03:38:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1507629622 Alexis Teplin hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1507639808 Teplin uses fabric and textile as an alternative canvas for her works. Much like her methods I became intrigued with the usage of textile and art. Her works gives me an almost theatrical concept and is seen as a performance piece rather than an installation work.]]> 2021-05-10 03:44:51 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1507639808 EXHIBITIONAlexis Teplin 'It's My Pleasure to Participate' hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1507647570 Alexis Teplin 'It's My Pleasure to Participate' - Exhibition at Bluecoat in Liverpool (artrabbit.com)]]> 2021-05-10 03:49:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1507647570 "!!" Alexis Teplin hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1507649386 Alexis Teplin - 11 Artworks, Bio & Shows on Artsy]]> 2021-05-10 03:50:35 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1507649386 Through our understandings towards each others works, we found a middle ground of automatic arts in drawing and poems. hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1507650894 2021-05-10 03:51:39 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1507650894 hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1507662894 2021-05-10 04:00:05 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1507662894 Progress hguo07201811 https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1507663668 2021-05-10 04:00:39 UTC https://padlet.com/hguo07201811/qe586ng4qq3cqwm/wish/1507663668