Created By
Mediha Ting
Acrylic on and Chinese ink on canvas
Curator
Luke Chapman
In Purple Mist (紫霞), Ting orchestrates a delicate balance between the tangible and the immaterial, conjuring a vision that oscillates between worlds. The butterflies serve as luminous protagonists—silent narrators navigating the shifting terrain of color and shadow, symbols of transformation and impermanence. The artist’s alchemical fusion of gold, blue, and violet echoes the spectral light of dawn breaking over an ancient city or the last glow of twilight reflecting off glass towers. This is not merely a meditation on beauty; it is a passage through time, a dream of nature interwoven with the fading architecture of memory. It hums with the pulse of something just beyond reach—a whisper, a shimmer, a flight.
Mediha Ting’s My Butterfly Series: Purple Mist (紫霞) (2024) unfolds like an illuminated manuscript of ephemeral beauty—one part celestial altarpiece, one part urban dreamscape. The work’s triptych structure, crowned by an arched panel, evokes a quiet sense of the sacred, where gilded hues dissolve into deep violets, and butterflies drift like spectral messengers between dimensions. These winged figures, meticulously rendered yet delicately translucent, emerge and recede through a haze of layered pigment, their presence both fleeting and eternal. The lattice of geometric forms, dissolving grids, and textural veils suggests an architectural memory—perhaps the scaffolding of a forgotten metropolis or the ghostly remnants of ink bleeding through old silk scrolls.
Created By
Mediha Ting
96 x 70 cm | 38 x 28 in
2024
