Dream Journey

This tactile relief stages childhood as a precarious voyage: a paper boat enlarged into a fragile ark, carrying a girl whose outstretched arms read as both surrender and exhilaration against a weathered, midnight-blue sky. The composition tilts forward with buoyant tension—crisp geometric folds and a small red flag insisting on direction—while the dark, striated water below is animated by a quiet procession of fish, like witnesses moving through an undercurrent of memory. By opposing the boat’s pale, origami purity with the sea’s heavy texture, the work turns play into metaphor, suggesting how innocence navigates vastness with nothing but imagination as ballast.