Hello, You

Every Day Is A Good Day

This series of works explores resilience through form, light, and language. The organic shapes are painted with special pigments that shimmer in sunlight, subtly shifting as the light changes. These radiant surfaces suggest quiet strength and vitality, while the surrounding negative space embodies a continuous, flowing energy. This ever-present force echoes the daily balance we maintain in life.

Woven through this piece is asemic writing: marks that resemble language but speak in mystery. Without knowing the symbols, we cannot read- but perhaps we can feel. All language begins this way: as an abstract form, later agreed upon. Without that agreement, words become art, sound becomes texture, and writing becomes a dance of intention and intuition. Here, meaning is constructed through context and shared understanding. Without that, even structured writing becomes an abstract form. This piece invites you not to decode, but to dwell in the spaces between sense and sensation, between silence and sparkle, where even the unspoken words can shine.

Wish You Good Luck

My first experience with Chinese calligraphy began in childhood, guided by my father. Long before I understood the meaning of the characters, I love the mark making play. The brush moved like a body in motion each stroke carrying rhythm, breath, and energy. When I write the character, I lived in the gesture before I understanding in the meaning.

Over time, my lived experiences and understanding the complexity meaning of the characters deepened my relationship with it mean. Writing for me became a way of listening. Each mark holds intention, memory, and lived experience.

Wish You Good Luck series is a meditation on this relationship. The characters in this series are drawn from traditional expressions of well-being and prosperity; often used in meditation or shared during Chinese New Year as wishes for good fortune. Each marks serves as a quiet anchor: a symbol of renewal, grounding, and cyclical return.

The strokes in these works are intentionally reconstructed. Influenced by the meaning of the original character. I allow my gestures to shift, loosen, and respond to the meaning. Through this process, the characters become both familiar and transformed, carrying inherited meaning alongside personal interpretation.

As I paint, I am reminded of the natural world: the shadows of tree branches, grass moving in wind, water rippling outward. These marks echo nature’s rhythms, responsive, relational, and alive. The act of marks making becomes a dialogue between body, brush, and present.

In cursive calligraphy, in particular, captures this state of flow. It holds energy rather than form, essence rather than precision. The practice is therapeutic an honest act between movement and meaning. These works are offered as gestures of care. It is my hope that they carry the same sense of joy, balance, and quiet vitality that emerged in the making.

The intents size for this series are large scale and I am welcoming on commission.