shan shui polaroids

Unique hand-pulled Polaroids in which long-expired chemicals are manipulated to reveal evocative landscapes and cloudscapes reminiscent of Classical Chinese Shan Shui paintings, which did not aim to depict the realistic appearance of nature but rather capture its essence and rhythm, and ultimately express the artist’s inner landscape.

Shan Shui #1 - #8 were available from Gallery 1/1 in San Jose, which specialized in unique photographic prints in editions of one, but unfortunately the gallery has since closed.

PRESS
There’s a nice write-up about this series by Diana Nicholette Jeon at One Twelve Publishing: Poignant Pics no. 63: On Two Images from Jonas Yip

EXHIBITS

2023
dust to dust, 9/22-11/26, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX

2019
Size Matters, 10/19-11/19, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA