Monologue Mingshan Lee 2024.03.16 - 04.16 PREFACE WORKS SCENE TEXT	□ 3000 Hours 3000 hours is an approximate number that pretty much amounts to time spent for works accompa-nied for my display. My drawing process takes time. Each painting would take me over 200 to 300 hours to accomplish. 3000 hours can be said as to sum up my works finished in the past two years and as time I spent in finishing the drawing. I thus use it to designate my display. The creation concept in the past two years basically is continuation of my previous experience. Af-ter my display named Happy Encounter, I laid to rest for over half a year and got renewed knowledge on the world I live in. I have been continuously hunting for breakthroughs of my works before slowly returning to my previous living track. Then all bottlenecks constraining my creation are gone. For me, creation is that you would find it bungled to foresee your future works. Time I spend in adjusting myself chimes with the name of this display. For me, creativity should be the basic competence a painter should acquire. It’s dull to repeat draw-ing a picture, so I would always try different explorations in topics and in texture of frames by con-verting from a picture loaded with people to one with an iota of them and from a public square to a private field. I also make changes to the characters. All sorts of explorations and attempts are con-tinuation of my own principal lines. I show stronger narrative nature in some of my recent paintings. Viewers might get to know the theme and things I would like to utter out without further enunciations. Of course, films by Stephen Chow, electronic games, cartoons, Cthulhu Mythos and parody of famous works can still be found in my series of works. ‘Focus on particularity’ still finds its presence in my works. Viewers can still get many bonus details from my paintings. As the display’s name implies, both techniques and skills are arduous and toilsome. ‘Speed’ matters for all things in this era. I might be an outsider that I am slow in drawing in such a fast-paced era. Some people were born to know significance of their existence while some people would spend their entire life hunting for it. This world, however, would like to gauge all people following the same rule, and that gives rise to tortures tormenting the bulk of them. All people have their own time and their own rhythm of life. The 15 paintings were done in 3000 hours spanning 125 days. It is my rhythm in the past two years.

Monologue
Mingshan Lee
2024.03.16 - 04.16

□ 3000 Hours

3000 hours is an approximate number that pretty much amounts to time spent for works accompa-nied for my display. My drawing process takes time. Each painting would take me over 200 to 300 hours to accomplish. 3000 hours can be said as to sum up my works finished in the past two years and as time I spent in finishing the drawing. I thus use it to designate my display.
The creation concept in the past two years basically is continuation of my previous experience. Af-ter my display named Happy Encounter, I laid to rest for over half a year and got renewed knowledge on the world I live in. I have been continuously hunting for breakthroughs of my works before slowly returning to my previous living track. Then all bottlenecks constraining my creation are gone. For me, creation is that you would find it bungled to foresee your future works. Time I spend in adjusting myself chimes with the name of this display.
For me, creativity should be the basic competence a painter should acquire. It’s dull to repeat draw-ing a picture, so I would always try different explorations in topics and in texture of frames by con-verting from a picture loaded with people to one with an iota of them and from a public square to a private field. I also make changes to the characters. All sorts of explorations and attempts are con-tinuation of my own principal lines.
I show stronger narrative nature in some of my recent paintings. Viewers might get to know the theme and things I would like to utter out without further enunciations. Of course, films by Stephen Chow, electronic games, cartoons, Cthulhu Mythos and parody of famous works can still be found in my series of works. ‘Focus on particularity’ still finds its presence in my works. Viewers can still get many bonus details from my paintings. As the display’s name implies, both techniques and skills are arduous and toilsome.
‘Speed’ matters for all things in this era. I might be an outsider that I am slow in drawing in such a fast-paced era. Some people were born to know significance of their existence while some people would spend their entire life hunting for it. This world, however, would like to gauge all people following the same rule, and that gives rise to tortures tormenting the bulk of them. All people have their own time and their own rhythm of life. The 15 paintings were done in 3000 hours spanning 125 days. It is my rhythm in the past two years.