Most of the time, when I do an intuitive sketch of my next piece and if I don’t have a concrete narrative to base on, I would start letting my hand draw on its own until it forms an image. That is my first floating form. Depending on whether or not there is a theme that comes up to mind right away, I would continue on adding more elements in positions that would feel like its going to look like Im staging them together. I cant really put it in words but the closest I can think of is “flower arrangement”. Yes, It’s like arranging the forms as they come up, as if Im arranging flowers in a bouquet as I pick whatever flower there is on the table.

I found myself almost subconsciously eyeing for what can be a great backdrop to the piece, which can depict movement or aliveness, or what to put on corners and edges. I can also call it collaging the elements together except theyre not different materials, they’re painted on their “rightful” positions. That is how i end up with contemporary surrealism compositions. The different elements may not go together in the real world, but in my world they do. Fishes swimming on air near a blue jay sitting on top of a lapiz lazuli for example or maybe its the blue jay poised at the bottom of the ocean where fishes seem to be unbothered by the unlikeliness of it all.

It’s like a bizarre diorama of random intuitive hints. The obvious mismatch should look like they truly belonged there and the whole still scene should make one wonder that maybe it has been like that ever since. maybe i didn’t create it, maybe I discovered it.