Curated by Larry Lee
This series is part of an ongoing exploration into how architectural containers shape the way we build, dwell, and belong. I’m drawn to the quiet power of built environments—how walls, thresholds, and boundaries influence not only how we navigate the world, but how we situate ourselves within it.
These geometric forms may appear empty, but to me, they carry deep spatial and psychological weight. I’m less interested in mapping exact places, but in what lingers: the shift of light across a surface, the feeling of texture when leaning against a wall—the quiet impressions that remain long after the space is gone. The title, Distant
View Nearby, speaks to a tension within the work: a closeness that remains elusive, and a distance that feels intimate.
For me, painting is a way of building. I treat the surface as a site where uncertainty is not a limitation, but a condition to inhabit. Each surface retains traces of decisions, adjustments, and erasures, foregrounding process over permanence. Within these gestures, spatial and temporal boundaries begin to dissolve—past and present, near and distant. In the act of constructing space, I’m reminded that to dwell is not only to occupy, but to become shaped by what we build and what we choose to hold.
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