Created By
Mediha Ting
Acrylic and Chinese ink on canvas
Curator
Luke Chapman
Ting’s approach in this piece is alchemical—melding Chinese ink traditions with modern acrylic abstraction, infusing delicate, transient subjects with a raw, urban dynamism. The butterflies, often symbols of fragility and transformation, here take on a ghostly resilience, navigating an environment where nature and metropolis converge. There’s a push and pull between spontaneity and control, between the organic and the industrial. Are these creatures navigating their way through the city’s chaos, or are they remnants—ghosts of nature fluttering against an increasingly artificial world? The work doesn’t answer; it simply suspends us in its restless, intoxicating flight.
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
