Year After Another-
Print, Ink, and Chinese Paint on Rice Paper, 15 x 20 cm, 2024
£250 (Framed)
This piece is inspired by a recurring theme in Chinese social media—videos capturing family reunions during Chinese New Year. One particular series of footages shows the same courtyard filmed over multiple years, a space where family members gather, celebrate, and then depart as part of the cyclical nature of migration. Faces change, children grow, and loved ones move between presence and absence, yet one figure remains unchanged—the grandmother, seated in the same corner,year after year.
"Year After Another" meditates on the passage of time, the rituals of reunion, and the quiet endurance of those who stay behind. The blurred figures suggest movement, transience, and the ebb and flow of life, while the seated figure anchors the composition, embodying continuity amid impermanence. Through layered textures and spectral forms, this piece reflects on the emotional weight of homecomings and departures, questioning what—and who—remains constant as time moves forward.
