A View Meant to Be Missed
This series of work draws on the visual language and logic of classical Chinese garden design and translates it through cyanotype processes using shadows of plants encountered during my walks through the neighborhood.
Fragments of the surrounding world are gathered and reframed, inviting viewers into a slower mode of looking and discovery.
Original works will be on view at Uptown Art Walk, Booth D7
1265 W Wilson, Chicago
Saturday, June 6, 2026. 10 am - 4 pm
In traditional Chinese gardens, walls and windows are intentionally placed to guide experience. By revealing only fragments of a scene, guests are encouraged to continue wandering, discovering, and imagining what lies beyond. I have been fascinated by these ideas since I was young. It shaped the way I move through the world and taught me to look for intentional absence and poetic spatiality in everyday life.
As I create these works, I find myself emotionally connected to them as well. They remind me of the unseen moments of becoming a new mom, so intense that even the memories feel blurred, with little or no documentation to hold onto. Yet they have left profound marks on my life.
I have come to realize that much of life is made up of moments like these: quiet, fleeting experiences that often pass unnoticed but shape us deeply. Through this work, I want to collect those delicate shadows, sharing the traces of what life leaves behind and reality suspended between appearance and disappearance.
