Eclipse (2024)

Ping Hsu

7 ¾ inches x 9 inches

Intaglio

Reggie, Boy-Boy, and Wancha, three recurring characters in Ping’s comics and soft sculpture works find themselves floating at sea. None of them expected to see an eclipse, they just happened to be in the right place at the right time. The blue of the ocean is the only light remaining, absorbing their bodies into its own. All three are the farthest from home they’ve ever been.

Alt-Text: a deep blue tinted print on paper. In it, three cartoon figures, a bunny, a humanoid, and an anthropomorphized lychee, float in an endless sea with a black sky behind them. They are only visible from the eyes up, floating in the water, their images reflected in the water below.

Ping Hsu is a craft artist and printmaker who loves to draw. Raised across nearly every region of the U.S, Ping’s works exhibit an eclectic range of inspirations and forms. He is currently based in New York and working on expanding Chin's Bio Projects series.

Artist Statement

I’m obsessed with the many somethings that collide to create another. In my art, this  materializes as thousands of beads tacked down or hundreds of threads strung together. As a child I began learning to sew from internet videos, I used what I learned to make gifts: scarves, toys, shawls. Now, textiles, beads, and quilts are recurring materials that create the sense of care in my works. On the other hand, printmaking lets me indulge in the story-making behind my crafted work. These stories are created from personal mythos, starring recurring characters born from a life-time of sketches and dreams. I draw out scenes from their shared mythology, whose stories come from family ancestral tales woven into my own lived experiences. The days of sewing and crafting serve as my own meditative spaces for bridging these tales and memories that typically aren’t over just yet.