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I'm a visual artist obsessed with optimism. Originally from California, now living in New York. This is a space where I think through and share notes on art, art worlds, transparency, positive psychology, and my process.

Learn more about me and see my work at ChristineWongYap.com.

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Some relevant texts to my art practice: 

 

Art Worlds

Ben Davis, 9.5 Theses on Art and Class

Johanna Drucker, Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity

Martha Rosler, Culture Class

 

Experience

George Lakoff & Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By

Yi-Fu Tuan, Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience

Yi-Fu Tuan, Passing Strange and Wonderful: Nature, Aesthetics, and Culture

 

Meta-Practice

Sharon Louden, ed., Living and Sustaining a Creative Life 

 

Positive Psychology

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity 

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow (Harper & Row, 1990)

Paul Martin, Sex, Drugs and Chocolate: The Science of Pleasure

Martin E. P. Seligman, Learned Optimism

Martin E. P. Seligman, Flourish

Phillip Zimbardo & John Boyd, The Time Paradox

 

 

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