Kiss Mark @ Beijing

 

LOVE is essential no matter to human, nature,  animals, objects or places... however love is a big task to be dealt with in life, people may take long to learn how to love. I have two doggies adopted from the shelter,  Once I come home they would jump up on me trying to kiss on my face. No doubt their love to human is innocent. People says why dog live shorter than human, because dog born to know how to love.

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In this art project I have collected 100 kisses from the residents during an artist in residency programme in Inside-out Art Museum in Beijing, the participant give messages or names to whom the kiss belong to. The work has been exhibited at Inside-out Art museum exhibition hall. Beijing was the first stop, I stayed one month in the programme, set up a kiss collecting station just next to the entrance of the museum, a desk with mirror, lipstick, makeup remover and cotton pads, for participate putting on lipstick then print their kisses on a handkerchief, and leave a message on a notepaper to say whom this kiss is given to, at the time was during Mother’s day,  a lot of the kisses were to their mothers.  

 

Asian culture is conservative, we rarely being taught to express ourselves. I counted the result among 100 up kisses I have collected, most of them were given to the parents, secondly is to daughter and son, but rarely to the lover, spouse or partner. This project has created a platform for someone to show their affection.

 

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