Possibilities of Light
This painting is from the series, Fleeting, Flowing, Flying and was created in 2022. This body of work is about the way places form us, especially those centered around bodies of water.
Possibilities of Light was created with acrylics, ink, and image transfers on canvas. It measures 15 inches in diameter. The painting is coated with a protective, UV varnish. The unique, wooden frame was crafted by a carpenter and is ready for hanging.
A signed certificate of authenticity is included and the painting is also signed on the back.
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About the Series: Fleeting, Flowing, Flying
This series was created in the first half of 2022 when I was preparing to move from Shanghai back to America after five years of being abroad. This experience helped to shape me as a person and artist. In this same spirit, this series is about the way places form us, especially those centered around bodies of water. Coastal Shanghai, 上海, is Chinese for “On the Sea” and walking near its rivers, canals, and coast shaped my experience of it.
Water’s many material and geographic forms, powerfully represent movement, transition, flow, and change. The power and pull of water are due to its prominent place within the course of human history, shaping geographies and moving us across and between continents. Water also moves within us, giving us life as it has all life on Earth. And yet like the unpredictable and ever-changing nature of human experience, so the course of flowing water is often uncertain, and subject to change.
Formally, my work—like water—is fluid, using several processes that are layered together. This layering of forms—and of aesthetic traditions, both Western and Eastern—is analogous to the layering of experiences that has characterized my travels, where objective reality is shaded by the subjective experience of it.
Creation and geographical movement are similar in that they can both disorient and offer direction. This is the paradox that motivates my work. The search is for what can hold an individual together as they move through uncertainty, as they respond—joyfully, if also reluctantly—to an urgency that might naturally draw them away from one home in search of another.
