Lily Iris
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Acrylic on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the back.

Created this piece during COVID stage 4 lock down in Melbourne.

Night is a soft creature.
When all the masks are taken off and outfits are folded away.
12am. You and your naked soul under a trillion stars with no one else around.

That's the time when all the delicate visitors descend from the night sky, light as feathers landing on your skin. All your senses are waken by the gentle touch of memories, emotions, secrets, thoughts, fear, regrets, a moment survived through eternity kept coming back, or words never said but never forgotten...it all seem unavoidable with no room to hide and no point to deny.

So open your arms and welcome it. Try to understand the message your visitors are trying to deliver. Let it touch you, but don't let it disturb you.

When all the lights are turned off, night allows us to see our lights within. To face our vulnerability and get closer to our truth. Like a snail moving across the hard surface of earth with the most tender part of its body. Then it becomes stronger.

Vulnerability isn't the opposite side of strength. Night isn't the opposite of light. It is the time before dawn. The time to understand, prepare, preserve and grow. Then the morning shall come and you will be stronger than you were ever before.

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Lily Iris
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Once upon a time, well before Dyson era, we use to sweep with a broom made from Spartium plants. A time when Master Hayao Miyazaki’s “Kiki’s Delivery Service” was playing on TV, a sweet magical time called “childhood”. Then Lucy sent me this photo last year with a note “Guess what it is?”. ”Ummm, a bush?” “A broom tree bush!” I could feel Lucy’s excitement. “Ohh!” The excitement lit up my night sky. Knowing the magic is still alive, when we still look up into the night sky sometimes and believe we might get a glimpse of KiKi on her magical broom flying across the sparkling city lights. Once upon a time, our hearts are open with the twinkling starts called curiosity, where we believe magic and all shiny little things, a beautiful time called “now”. This is the first piece of this small work series called "Lucy's Lens". Inspired by my cousin Lucy's photos. Lucy takes excellent photos. Not about skills. More about the little subjects caught her eyes. Lucy recently suffered a minor eye injury, still experiencing shadows while recovering. I drew inspiration from her photos and started on this series. So far have 3 more pieces to come. Hoping by the time they all complete, she will be fully recovered and return to her shadow free colourful life. This piece is her flower fields. It takes me to a place warm and free. Hope it adds a little warmth to your winter too. I love spring, but autumn has always been my favourite. Love the term “fall”, so leisurely poetic. Those maple leaves were time-consuming to paint, but I had the vision of them falling in the process, I saw them floating in morning breeze, slowly descending in front of my eyes full of playfulness, and eventually land on the surface of water. The word “fall” is an abstract of the entire breathtaking process. On that note, I also like when the word is used in “falling in love” or simply “falling.” However, to me, it used to have a sense of destiny, a process of losing control, therefore often had some fear written on the flip side of its irresistible glory. But now, I feel something has shifted in me, maybe while I was falling with these maple leaves. “Falling” to me seems no longer a helpless process of crash and burn. It can be poetic and we don’t have to quit our logic. Remain conscious and in control is not conflicting with staying open and vulnerable. With that shift, the fear disappeared as well. As much they consumed me in many late nights, these maple leaves taught me something beautiful.
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