
Zihao Chen, Mirage, 2021. Photo-etching, aquatint.

Zihao Chen, June 3, 2021. Photo-etching, aquatint, dry-point.
The unpredictable phenomena of nature has always intrigued me. This year I began to work with photography to examine memory, particularly my memory of natural disasters, as compared to the public memory. The subtle disconnect between the private-public interface inspires me to create prints and to experiment with image processing. Images from the public realm interfere with images of my personal experience; they are permeable, they transform each other. I want to create a palimpsest whereby the images in my artworks are containers for the overlapping of private and public memories.

Zihao Chen, June 4, 2021. Photo-etching, aquatint, dry-point.

Zihao Chen, June 2, 2021. Photo-etching, aquatint, dry-point.

Zihao Chen, Fragments 3, 2021. Photo-etching, aquatint, dry-point.

Zihao Chen, Crowd, 2021. Photo-etching, aquatint.

Zihao Chen, Survivors, 2021. Aquatint, sugarlift.

Zihao Chen, Untitled, 2021. Photo-etching, aquatint.

Zihao Chen, Untitled, 2021. Photo-etching, aquatint, dry point.