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This work, completed around 2015, shows that Chen Tao-Ming's practice has entered another phase.
Here, color no longer serves the construction of form. There is no longer a clear structural order, nor any recognizable figure to rely on. The interfaces and masses that once provided support gradually dissolve, giving way to a more open perceptual condition.
Color no longer forms objects, but begins to generate space.
You may find that there is no longer a place for your gaze to settle. Your eyes drift and move across the surface. Front and back, depth and flatness, are no longer fixed relations, but continue to shift as you look.
Traces still remain, but they no longer point toward the formation of forms. They are closer to residues of a process. Time is no longer condensed into structure, but unfolds as an ongoing state.
When viewed through chromatic 3D glasses, these loosened relations are further amplified. Differences in color bring forth a sense of spatial depth, but this space is unstable—it changes as your gaze moves.
In the lower right corner, a distinct trace of operation remains.
Within an otherwise seemingly self-generated surface, this area appears to retain a small portion of human intervention that has not been fully dissolved. It does not form a shape, nor does it act as a focal point, yet it causes your gaze to pause slightly.
Within this field of seeing, it becomes a kind of opening—something left unresolved.
In this work, seeing no longer leads to understanding, but becomes an experience.
You are no longer recognizing an image, but moving through an unfinished process of perception.