With “Endless Monologue,” Licia He reflects on questions that she subconsciously asks herself like, “Who am I?” and “Is this correct?” In thinking about these repetitive and constant questions, she writes, “They are soft murmurs yet enormously demanding. They are intricate but chaotic. Gloomy or bright, they are all colorful, tangled, and bizarre.” A selection of 31 phrases from her internal monologues are the seeds for the random number generator that defines each artwork in the series. The visual manifestation is a dense surface of flowing curves that intersect and create networks.
Because Licia is using paint and brushes to translate her images from code to paper, the difference between ...