Love: Beyond Emotion
Self and nurture 2022, oil on canvas, 160cmx120cm
Yek 2022, oil on canvas, 170cmx120cm
Love in circulation 2022, oil on canvas, 150cmx120cm
The phoenix of love 2022, oil on canvas, 180cmx120cm
Love: Beyond Emotion at Hatched: National Graduate Show 2023
Love: Beyond Emotion explores the spiritual reality of love and its significance in contemporary society. The large-scale paintings portray my friends, who are young members of the Baháʼí community in Perth. The portraits challenge materialistic interpretations of love and depict rather as a transformative force, capable of nurturing, unifying, healing and consuming the self. Here, the works intertwine realistic representations with abstracted calligraphy to raise insights into the spiritual, intangible nature of love.
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Photo credit : Bo Wong