Start of “I Come As One, But I Stand As Ten Thousands”

Amor Fati

The phrase “amor fati” is Latin for “love of one’s fate.” It describes the attitude whereby one not only accepts everything that happens in life, including adversity and loss, but actually loves it.

First Sketch of “I Come As One, But I Stand As Ten Thousands”

If today breaks your heart, smiling Lily So is the best healing art.

Soundtrack: “Tomorrow” by Marc Scibilia

 When Painting of “I Come As One, But I Stand As Ten Thousands” Begins to Take Shape

Choosing, buying, moving canvas back, imagining, creating a king size bed painting, refilling colours, filming, editing video, adding subtitles to translate 1 of my favourite songs into Chinese, all made by myself with grace and faith. Did the best I can. I will do better when I know better. 

How much I wish my soul creating yet not possessing the work only by me. But I have faith inside my heart that no one could take away. No matter what we do, how much we earn, we need another human being for survival in times of hardships. Love is the driving force to keep going. 

Soundtrack that depicts the painting story: ”Words of Love” by Arthur Russel (Arthur Russel is a genius never to be recognised in his own times but to be enjoyed by generations to come. Thanks music as always for offering me comfort.)

Touch Up for “I Come As One, But I Stand As Ten Thousands” 

Do you know what you truly want? You’re the only thinker in your mind. And the way you think, with how much focus you think, how much stability is there in your thought, and how much reverberance is there in your thought process, will actually determine whether your thought will become reality or it is just an empty thought. If your thought is created in a powerful way, without any negativity, without any negative thought bringing down the intensity of the thought process, then everything you wish for becomes possible. But the first and foremost thing is, you must be clear about what is it that you truly want. 

Soundtrack: “Fairy of the shoreline” by Ichiko Aoba

Complete

May you be free, eternally.

I am not in the centre of anything. I am just, like, such a pleb. No one probably takes me seriously and everyone slightly feels sorry for me. I am doing really big, figurative paintings that seem so much more me. If I am sharing the blissfulness with someone, they’ve got to be a pretty big person with quite an amazing imagination. You climb the ladder for the entry, I don’t make stairs for you. My job is to be myself at any cost.

Close-up of “I Come As One, But I Stand As Ten Thousands”

If anyone is magically going to appear and just suddenly make your life better, just know that person is always going to be yourself. 

Soundtrack: “Dancing with Myself” by The Cooltrane Quartet, Ituana

Above and Beyond My Imagination

My work explores the notion of the soul in limbo, the liminal state between reality and idealism, perpetually on the cusp of transcendence.

What my word says is irrelevant. People who comprehend the language cannot read it anymore due to my intensity of writing.

Somehow the word loses its meaning, which creates another meaning, which is my form, my activity.

Soundtrack: “Ao Vivo” by Todo Homem (feat. Tom Veloso)