Tender is the Night

I make abstract paintings with paper. My work overall examines and explores aspects of ephemerality, ethereality, and unpredictability as it relates to human experience. In creating this series called “Night Stream” and this piece, I was inspired by the mercurial, tenuous, and ethereal nature of the nighttime. Just as in the nocturnal world where deep dreams and evocative transience flow through the air, this piece streams in and out of our subconscious mind; and it navigates through fragments of our experiences and memories. In the process of creating the work, several layers of paper were glued together then the very layers were sanded and peeled to reveal new layers underneath. As in my other series, throughout this series, I celebrate tenuous, mysterious, and delicate beauty of life through limning universal human experience of precarious impermanence and its ironic exchangeability with life onto a canvas by performing the acts of building, annihilating, and eventually, birthing and revealing anew.