Oil on canvas — 75.5 × 56 cm
Captured from a photograph taken in Singapore’s lily ponds, this work studies the quiet tension that lives beneath still water. Broad green pads float calmly across the surface, yet their serenity is interrupted by a vivid surge of red below — a hidden heart, a pulse, a reminder that life continues out of sight.
Light and shadow carve pathways through the composition, guiding the eye between surface calm and underwater depth. The overlapping leaves act like shields and windows at the same time, revealing and concealing what lives underneath. The red centre anchors the piece emotionally, suggesting warmth, blood, memory, or desire — depending on where the viewer stands.
This painting invites reflection on what we show and what we hide, how stillness can hold movement, and how beauty often lives in the spaces we overlook.