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  • This is the largest painting I have done to date. The triptych represents my life journey. The first panel depicts myself setting out on a journey. The poinsettias flowers indicate the start of the journey in December, when Hong Kong was starting to lift its COVID restrictions. The second panel depicts a domestic environments with objects from home, and one of my projects, the first lantern, in the distance. The full moon is echoed by the yellow Chrysanthemum in the vase. The third panel depicts a Hong Kong indigenous plant. Thatch Screwpine, a plant very common when I go hiking. This represents the journey finishes at home, ready to start again. A double arched colonnade unified the three parts. This is a memory from my secondary school in Hong Kong where the students assembled under the colonnades. The two clusters of planting in the foreground on the first panel is a wild growth, and on the third panel is a domesticated peonies growth. In the middle is a vase with flowers, symbolizing the comfort of home.
  • This painting is the continuation of the balcony series. The camellia we bought during COVID started to bloom again, with beautiful crimson flowers, in October 2023. That was the time we celebrated Mid-Autumn Festival, and then two days later, fireworks for the first time in HK since 4 years ago.
  • This painting is a continuation of the painting I showed at ABHK last year, Ode to the Wandering Son. This is a diary of my journey, post COVID, when I can travel again. It depicts islands representing seven places I went to in the last year that are surrounded by water: Honolulu, Phuket, Singapore, Taipei, Borneo, Ha Long Bay, and Hong Kong. The view from an architecture space to the exterior is as if I am framing a view from my inner self to the world. Here, I feel more grounded and sat as a painter, with a willow tree to my left and an orange tree to my right, both I saw in gardens in Suzhou. The foreground is flanked by a parterre from the Jardin du Luxembourg on the left, and a peony garden on the right, with a vase of flowers that to me, represents home, in the middle.