STEPHANIE VIVIAN YU

Artist living and working in Portland, Oregon.

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Check out my website at www.stephanieyuart.com

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Body Image/ God Image My relationship to my body has been a painful one until the last few years. When I was younger I believed the only way to achieve the body I could love was by hating it enough to want to change.

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I fit so easily into the empty spaces and squares.

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Martin Kersels. hubba hubba.

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Martin Kersels,  Tossing A Friend (Melinda), 1996 & Lover, 2003

“If I was of average height or average weight, and I wanted to do work about patheticness or deal with humor, I’d have to hire somebody. But I feel I embody it… work that I make pushes me into some insights about being individual, set off from a lot of people, being of both heroic and pathetic stature.” Full interview with Martin Kersels at the Curve.

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October, 2014

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Studio exercise.

Use provisional objects:

White sheet

Hour glass

Resounding thought. I want to be "in" time. I want to move like fabric. I want to be beautiful like light. 

I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings.”

—  Mary Oliver

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First day back in the studio. I challenged myself to use whatever items were present to create a performance. I chose a white trash bag, red string, and a Danielle Steel's love poetry book. This is what happened. 

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First day back in the studio. I challenged myself to use whatever items were present to create a performance. I chose a white trash bag, red string, and a Danielle Steel's love poetry book. This is what happened. 

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The beauty of process.

PNCA MFA Visual Studies Thesis Work.

a little closer, video installation

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Thesis work. PNCA MFA Visual Studies '14

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Thesis Words

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Do you meow even when you're alone?

Always.

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Projection on stomach.

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The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

Osho  (via talisman)