Untitled 3 (Lotus Garden)

A field of lotus leaves unfurls like overlapping shields, their cool turquoise and celadon planes held in crisp contour so the pond becomes a calm mosaic rather than a mirror. Against this measured geometry, the pink blossoms rise as brief, tender punctuation—soft gradients of color that feel breathed onto the surface, suggesting life’s fragile insistence within an ordered world. The vertical rush of reeds disrupts the circular rhythm, introducing a quiet tension between stillness and growth, as though the scene records not a moment but a slow, continuous becoming. In its flattened space and luminous restraint, the work turns nature into a meditation on balance: serenity built from layers, and beauty sustained by interdependence.