Fantasy 5 (girl with lotus)

This painting dissolves the human face into a tide of water, where lily pads, fish, and drifting blossoms move like memories across the skin, turning portraiture into a living ecosystem. Warm earthen reds and mossy greens interlace in translucent layers, so light feels filtered—less like illumination than like a submerged breath passing through time. The repeated visage reads as a chorus of selves, suggesting identity not as a fixed mask but as something continually revised by nature’s currents and the quiet persistence of renewal. In this gentle blur between body and pond, the work proposes a tender reciprocity: we look at the world, and the world looks back through us.