Sketch No.2

As an original artist study, this Sketch focuses on form exploration and visual experimentation.

Created in acrylic on canvas, the work investigates how familiar botanical structures can be altered until they begin to suggest an entirely different organism. Lines, shapes, and organic forms function as elements of a developing visual vocabulary rather than as representations of a fixed species.

This experimental process plays an important role in Cheng Chang’s broader practice. Before imagined plants and hybrid organisms appear within larger speculative environments, their individual structures must first be explored—how they might grow, connect, transform, or depart from existing biological classifications.

The sketch therefore functions as a developmental space between observation and invention.

Its compact format reinforces the sense of an artist’s working study: concentrated, immediate, and intentionally open-ended. Rather than providing a final answer, the work preserves the moment in which a new botanical form is still being discovered.

This Sketch captures Cheng Chang’s process of testing form before it develops into a more resolved visual language. Working on an intimate scale, the artist uses the study as a space for direct experimentation. Botanical references are simplified, distorted, and recombined as Cheng Chang investigates how an imagined organism might grow beyond the recognizable structures of existing plant life. Rather than following a predetermined composition, the work preserves the uncertainty of discovery. Shapes emerge through observation and intuition, allowing new biological possibilities to develop directly on the canvas. The result feels like a visual note from the artist’s studio—a record of a moment when an idea is being tested rather than finalized. For collectors, this original study offers access to a different stage of Cheng Chang’s practice. It reveals not only the visual vocabulary behind his larger paintings, but also the experimentation, revision, and spontaneous decisions that contribute to the development of his imagined ecological world.

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