Ray Koh

Lives and works in Big Sur, CA, USA

Artist statement

RAY KOH is a 6-year-old California based artist + filmmaker. He is a 16-time winner of the Creative Quarterly Journal for Fine Art winning in multiple categories for fine art and photography. Six years ago, I began my artist career in Big Sur, CA with a drone and a primordial desire to explore creative expression. Using a drone as my paint brush, eraser and the ocean as his canvas, I began exploring primitive artistic techniques such as learning how to draw lines, understanding form, controlling the medium enough to start becoming expressive beyond its own intrinsic givens. I knew I had to learn how to work with Mother Nature in order to make unlock the key to a productive symbiotic relationship. Unlike other drone pilots, I was using the drone as paint brush. My process and methodology became more akin to an archaeologist where the brush became more an eraser that removed unnecessary elements so that only extracted subject-matter remained. Less was more but only because my subject-matter was deeply embedded into the work. This unique methodology created an unusual sense of scale to my work given how large of an area the images covered. "The Big Sur Suite" is a culmination of my years in Big Sur, CA. The collection of artworks explore large scale earthworks, ocean portraits, notions on the primordial which includes a series of Big Sur "bowls of water" and the largest California Roll in the world. It was here in Big Sur while emotionally being on fire, I learned how to...

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