Phoebe Hui – [art]attack 26 Creative intervention is closely connected with my way of living. It stimulates me to reflect on things normally taken for granted. If thinking is infinite, we may never stop sprouting thoughts. The nature of thinking as a continuous motion or becoming, and the ways it is constantly open to change formed the fundamental trajectory of my artistic strategies. I would consider my artwork as a portrait that captures my ephemeral thoughts, inexpressible in words, in an effort to preserve their singular fluidity. I whisper what I think through my artwork. Most of my works show a strong interest in defamiliarisation of, and experimentation with, text and images, in order to discover new possibilities and to transgress ordinary boundaries. I often work with the transformation of text into image and play with the written forms of different languages. The idea is closely linked with metagraphics and Chinese pictogram. My poster for the International Experimental Art Festival “3rd.txt: images + media”, which was selected by Xpress (vol 6 .2003), a journal of the Hong Kong Designers Association is one of the examples. To highlight fluidity, I let one medium become another. This passage across media expresses the fluidity of thought and action. I also construct new ways of seeing text, as pure point, line, shape and movement, beyond the function of the language as a medium for transmit thoughts & meaning. Text becomes a visual element, to be perceived for it own sake, not service as a vehicle for communication. In response to one lecture about the “letterist” group in post-war France, I invented my own new written language to “rewrite” an excerpt from Ways of seeing by John Berger, using graphic elements (point, lines and surfaces). I am interested in the technique of détournement, the reuse of pre-existing parameters – for instance, letters of the alphabet and other symbols – in order to rec...