New Version (Rhinoceros in Twilight)

A monumental rhinoceros advances through an Eden of stylized lotus leaves and bamboo, its dense, violet-black mass anchoring the picture like a living monolith against the saturated blues and greens of the marsh. The orange sun—flat, emblematic, and almost theatrical—compresses time into a single suspended moment, turning the scene into a mythic vignette rather than a literal habitat. Inscribed upon the animal’s flank, the script reads like a wound and a blessing at once, suggesting the uneasy human impulse to name, claim, and sanctify what remains untamable. In this collision of decorative abundance and bodily gravity, the painting becomes a quiet elegy for wilderness—still radiant, yet already marked.