The white canvas has always been the beginning for my making of two-dimensional art. So it was with great excitement when I discovered the illsuion of black infinite space of the computer terminal before programming colored images. As a painter I now had an opportunity to paint with limitless space as background. All of a sudden it was possible to place my sculptures in simulated environments. My exhibited works here at the Honolulu Club form a conglomerate personal imaginary world seeded by inner fantasies and a lifelong love affair with Space.
Background becomes subject through the creation of an outer space viewer orientation.
As a group of works I hope it conveys a pleasing sensing of the presence of painting and scupture, both working together through the thread of digitalized illusions of outer space. Chang uses his own paintings and sculpture, among other things, as raw material for manipulation and transformation with graphic software, capturing key images in photographic stills. Chang is, at the moment, one of the few, if not the only artist to exhibit computer-based art, though there are a number of indications that such work will become increasingly visible. Chang has been able to achieve the first objective but has yet to achieve the second. Hawaiiiana, New York, universal, cosmic, nuclear, surreal, sculptural, classical, expressionistic, the unexpected themes 32.