Created By
Mediha Ting
Ink and color on paper
Curator
Luke Chapman
This piece holds a quiet struggle between obscurity and clarity. The dark, smokelike textures suggest lingering uncertainty, yet they don’t dominate—the light steadily asserts itself, breaking through in softened yet deliberate strokes. Ting’s technique, blending controlled drips with unpredictable diffusion, gives the work an organic, evolving quality. The painting doesn’t declare resolution, but it moves toward it, letting light emerge in its own time. There’s a rawness here, a sense of something unresolved but hopeful, as if the moment between night and day is stretched out, asking to be noticed.
Contemporary Chinese Ink Painting Shine Through the Darkness series (曙光乍現) Mediha Ting’s Emerging Light (曙光初現) captures the fragile yet persistent moment when darkness begins to lift. The painting is layered with soft washes of yellow, violet, and blue, interrupted by deep streaks of black that hover like remnants of dissipating storm clouds. Ting’s fluid handling of paint creates a tension between weight and lightness—pigment drips down the surface like melting ice, while patches of radiant color push through the haze. The contrast between shadow and illumination isn’t stark but gradual, a slow transition rather than an abrupt shift, mirroring the way light often returns in nature—uncertain at first, then undeniable.
Created By
Mediha Ting
180 x 96 cm | 71 x 38 in
2019
