wang Ling

2024

Well

POST WINGS

The artwork features blooming silky flower as its main subject, utilizing mineral pigments to repeatedly layer branches, leaves, and background, resulting in a dense intertwining of varying shades of green and deep blacks that create a profound and rich natural space. Vibrant red flowers emerge from the dark foliage, and against the strong contrast of colors, they resemble the sudden radiance of life blossoming within tranquility.

The painting does not depict the sky in a traditional manner but instead directs the viewer’s gaze towards the fragmented gaps between the branches and leaves behind the flowers, using silver powder to express the light observed through these openings. The silver shifts in brightness depending on the viewing angle and ambient light, transforming the originally background 'void' into another significant focal point within the artwork.

Through the interplay of density and white space, depth and brightness, obfuscation and penetration, the piece attempts to reconsider the way we 'view'—what we see is not just the flowers in full bloom before us, but also the easily overlooked gaps between them. When our gaze traverses the intricate, these small crevices may become entrances to another sky.

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