The art of Han Sai Por has always been centered on nature and natural forms. Flow Through The Land and Water Erosion are part of a body of work created by Han during an artist residency with the Singapore Tyler Print Institute. In line with her minimalist sculptures, these paper-based works retain an economy and poetry of form that suggest and capture a multitude of elemental energies.Flow Through The Land gestures towards the tradition of Chinese ink with its expanse of black and white, and negative and positive space. It evokes multiple vistas, both terrestrial and celestial. Viewed from afar, the surface appears flat and the veins of white against black suggest a comet streaking across the sky, chasing its own tail. Close up, the textured and moulded paper surfaces suggest a more earthbound view, of a river winding its way through the land, the contours of which are heightened by the raised mound in the middle, reminiscent of a landscape, or a cumulative swirl of energies, both natural and cosmic.
