Art as Awareness — Sharing Moments of Connection

Q (expanded from Lee’s fifth question): What message do you hope viewers take from your work?

Looking across my body of work, I realise what connects even my most diverse pieces is a desire to create moments of awareness. Each painting is an invitation to pause and connect—whether with a memory, a feeling, or a question.

Sometimes that’s the awe I feel at dawn on a riverbank, which I captured in River Melody. Sometimes it’s the raw intensity of a storm, as in Thunder, or the quiet intimacy of two vessels leaning toward one another in Still Longing. Even in my abstracts, I’m not illustrating objects so much as the pulse of life itself—the tension of change in Edge of Calm or the resilience embedded in Patchwork Village: Palestine in Memory.

Art, for me, is about connection. If a single image can remind someone of their own story, evoke an emotion, or stir a memory they thought forgotten, then I’ve achieved my purpose.

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