- 和 - The Art of the Presence

Finding Inner Peace in a Noisy World. 

In the rush of the city, we have become masters of efficiency but strangers to our surroundings. We move from point A to B, eyes locked on screens, trading the quality of our time for the speed of progress. I chose to put my phone away and simply look at the life right in front of me.

When you truly pay attention, the street reveals its character. I see it in the "cow-patterned" feathers of a stray pigeon or a single flower claiming its space in a concrete corner. To me, the pigeon is a mirror. They have lived alongside us for centuries—ignored and rushed—yet they survive with a defiant attitude. They look us in the eye with a bended neck as if to ask: "What are you looking at?"

In each of my paintings, there is a "Little Observer." He is an odd presence—someone who doesn't quite belong to the scene, yet he is there anyway, hiding and watching the world of pigeons and flowers unfold.

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