Candy Chang

@candychang.com

Artist. The future of ritual.

30,000 years ago someone carved this woman known as the Venus of Willendorf. Was it for fertility, desire, or by a lady looking down and sculpting herself? @jamesreeves.co and I visited Vienna to see her in person. In the modern style I also contemplate her via tank top + candle thanks to friends. ✨

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From Taipei to Columbus: I can make my own hanging canvas scrolls now! Thanks to grants from Asian Cultural Council, Ohio Arts Council, Greater Columbus Arts Council, + scroll master Wu Ting Wei and woodworker Brian Banks. ✨

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1,440 unique handwritten bits form a binary translation of Taoist philosopher Zhuangzi on the potentials and limitations of language. This is also how I obtained 3 months of back pain.

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Has Saint Jerome ever been sexier? Catch me frisky for devotion. “Vision of Saint Jerome” by Guido Cagnacci, ~1659. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.

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Arranging reflections on relationships into a permanent public artwork. Dedicated to fleeing from our lonely self-absorption vortexes and towards our edifying relations with others. Inspired by the natural forces at the heart of this neighborhood + the infinite wisdom of the I Ching, Hexagram 8. 😎

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Share your anxieties, hopes, horrors, and pleasures around relationships in this quick installation I made at the Dublin branch library in metro Columbus, Ohio. Many responses will be included in a permanent public artwork installed in the area next year. Here until May 15!