Created By
Mediha Ting
Acrylic on and Chinese ink on canvas
Curator
Luke Chapman
Ting’s Light Flare (昡光) meditates on transience, the interplay of seen and unseen, the way a moment of light—unexpected, piercing—can redefine space, perception, and emotion. There’s an almost cinematic quality to the illuminated butterfly, caught in the beam like the protagonist of an otherworldly dream, frozen at the intersection of revelation and disappearance. The architectural echoes in the background suggest a city remembered through layers of time, its textures dissolving into the alchemical wash of ink and pigment. Here, light is not merely a visual device but a presence—a force both grounding and ethereal, a whisper of awakening in the liminal space between day and night. The work breathes with a quiet urgency, like a secret waiting to be uncovered.
Mediha Ting’s My Butterfly Series: Light Flare (昡光) (2024) unfolds as a poetic convergence of fleeting radiance and ephemeral motion. The composition, structured as a triptych crowned by a half-moon arch, presents a celestial threshold where light and shadow engage in a delicate pas de deux. A spectral glow fractures the darkness, illuminating the flight path of delicate butterflies—some drawn irresistibly toward the source, others dissolving into the labyrinthine architecture of the background. Layers of gold, violet, and deep indigo bleed into one another like memories etched in mist, forming an urban palimpsest through which the wings of transformation flicker and fade.
Created By
Mediha Ting
96 x 70 cm | 38 x 28 in
2024
