Collection: Gold Mountain Series

Gold Mountain is a collection of fine art by artists Tsang Tseng Tseng and Jeremiah Watson. While Watson draws, Tsang observes. While Tsang draws, Watson observes. In observation, a fresh idea comes forth and again the brush switches hands. This process of dialogue through the hand brings forth a landscape of two world views combined into one.

     Watson and Tsang envision the future viewer carrying on this dialogue. Layer over layer, the world that the viewer is creating and experiencing is a calm dialogue between the artists, of past, and the observer, of present. The viewer may enter the space of the painting. Reflections of sun, sounds, breeze, and changes under walking are activated in time and space by the traveler. May the observer find satisfaction to dwell in the dialogue of the painted landscape. As the ancient philosopher Laozi says, “he who is satisfied is rich.”

     The idea of Gold Mountain, a mountain that might contain gold, brought settlers to the Western United States in the late nineteenth century. This idea of the mountain as a materialistic opportunity to be exploited conflicts with the idea of the mountain as a spiritual force of nature. This exhibition explores varied interpretations of Gold Mountain as an idea and as a place in a series of ink and brush landscapes. The imaginary landscapes of Gold Mountain exist to calmly inspire the observer’s visionary senses.