Created By
Mediha Ting
Acrylic and Chinese ink on canvas
Curator
Artbridger Curator
In Mediha Ting’s "Butterflies over the city," the artist masterfully blurs the boundaries between nature and urbanity, delicacy and strength. Ting's intricate layering of textures and colors creates a mesmerizing interplay between the ethereal butterflies and the gritty cityscape beneath them, inviting viewers to ponder the coexistence of beauty and chaos. The artist’s fusion of traditional ink techniques with contemporary abstraction results in a hauntingly beautiful composition that challenges our perceptions of transience and permanence within a rapidly evolving world.
Mediha Ting’s My Butterfly Series: Butterflies Over the City (2024) is a layered palimpsest of movement, memory, and materiality, a map of ephemeral flight traced over the grit and density of an urban scape. Four butterflies—each distinct in texture, opacity, and presence—hover within the painterly chaos, spectral yet undeniably alive. Their wings are intricate tapestries, marked with patterns that recall the ink of ancient manuscripts or the fleeting imprints of timeworn graffiti. Beneath them, washes of violet, amber, and obsidian swirl and drip, interwoven with scribbled text—notations of medium, method, and thought, blurring the boundary between artwork and artist’s field notes.
Created By
Mediha Ting
36 x 36 cm | 14 x 14 in
Black frame flowing with acrylic sheet
2024
