The instant where light, water and life meet — the heart that has been hurt and still chooses to go forward gently.
The brightest pigment is always saved for light: the shaft through the leaves, the shattered sheet on the water, the sliver under a door.
The exhibition title says it exactly — Everyday Glow. What moves us is never the strong light, but the ordinary that barely glows at all.
Water returns again and again: a stone basin, a puddle, a whole pool of blue-green. It cuts a body in two, then joins it back together as reflection.
The cats in the water are not panicking. Their eyes are open. That is curiosity, not fear.
The city is hard; the backs of two cats on a window ledge are soft. He puts the softest thing where softness is least expected.
The curatorial text puts it best: hurt, and still choosing to go forward gently.
“Between tenderness, one’s own light grows, slowly.”
The artist’s inscription
Liu Han WenHANWEN ART