Crystal Liu's drawings of flowers, roots, trees and houses symbolise different facets of our psyche, evoking perilous seduction and danger. Liu's out of love , 2006 and from dead wood , 2007 series are fragments of the ongoing narratives of love, pain, and latent violence.

In Liu's photographs, meditations on her domestic surroundings become metaphors for her emotion. Ordinary objects are arranged and framed to create extraordinary scenes.

Liu has exhibited in San Francisco, New York and Toronto. Her work is in the collection of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

John Westmark's works explore the metaphorical relationship between seemingly disparate ideas and materials. Industrial paper sewing patterns directly applied to the canvas represent metaphysical images and mythological narratives. From his FLIGHT PATTERNS to the recent MYTH+PATTERN series, the artist has been exploring the potential of materials within pictorial space outside of their usual functional context.

"the persistence of myth over time is indicative of our need to understand the 'patterns' of human lives." Mythological narratives are built upon the multi-layered references to human nature. Just like the diagrams and codes on sewing patterns that directly indicate specific features and functions, individual characters in myths symbolise certain human attributes and values. A garment is realised only through the assembly of individual parts from sewing patterns; likewise, myths and history are a kind of panoramic fabric intricately woven with layers of different threads of human lives.