2026 – Oil on linen – 120x190cm – Acquired

This painting is not a site-specific artwork, yet I have been fortunate enough to know the room in which it will reside for a long time. It is wonderful to think that my painting can enter into a dialogue with both the space and its owner.

The room contains beautiful carpets. Each carpet is made of warp and weft threads woven together to create its texture and structure. The beauty of a carpet lies in the integration of these intersecting threads. Human beings are much the same: the beauty of one’s inner world is woven from the cultural threads gathered throughout life. Those who have been exposed to many cultures become the most vibrant carpets of all. I sought to have my sky painting reflect this idea.

This led me to think about filament-like cloud formations—long bands of clouds stretched across the sky by the wind. Many people assume that all clouds within a given sky move in the same direction. In reality, this is not the case. I have painted clouds for many years and have observed them closely. Across the more than ten kilometers of the visible atmosphere above us, different layers of wind can sometimes drive clouds in different directions. As a result, cloud bands occasionally cross one another, interweaving like threads in a carpet.

In this painting, I have depicted both cloud bands and cloud masses. Some drift toward the East, while others move toward the West. The western clouds appear free and expansive; the eastern clouds surge with energy and momentum.

Thus, the sky in this painting becomes a metaphor for a carpet of clouds—or, perhaps, a metaphor for human beings woven together from diverse currents of culture.