When Hou Yi Put Down His Bow hypha-gallery-east-village like the city’s noise

like the city’s noise

anchoring it to a specific location where for many decades the tree defined its urban surroundings

The clogging feeling of someone getting into your body and under your skin

I transform abstract ideas into immersive experiences

erasure and manipulating line and scale of representational forms were part of this work’s process

When Hou Yi Put Down His Bow hypha-gallery-east-village like the city’s noiseThe painting is inspired by the myth of Hou Yi, the archer who shot down eight scorching suns to save the earth. His act of courage reshaped the world and allowed life to continue. I believe weve inherited this same impulse to change the world. But now, in our era of endless transformation and intervention, I sometimes wonder: have we gone too far in reshaping the world? I imagined a scene where multiple suns still hang in the sky, yet rivers flow and