Folk Dance (Tiger and Cow Guardians)

This sculptural tableau stages a tense, almost ceremonial symmetry: a striped predator and a pale, horned counterpart arc their bodies into a single circular aperture, turning opposition into architecture. The ring functions like a threshold—part halo, part portal—through which a miniature pastoral scene is protected and displayed, suggesting that tenderness survives only when held within negotiated power. Vivid accents of red and patterned skin animate the figures with theatricality, while the central void invites the eye to linger on absence as the true framing device, making harmony feel provisional, hard-won, and strangely luminous.