Overlooking a Night Street

作品賞析

The intense contrast between light had darkness as night falls in the city and the lights turn on are the subject of LIN Bao-Ling’s painting Overlooking a Night Street. In this piece, Lin constructs a blurred light-and-shadow effect using water-and-ink painting techniques, the varying shades of ink capturing a familiar yet foreign cityscape, like a black-and-white photograph. For years, Lin has used light and shadow as subject matter, depicting his inner feelings and the spiritual aura of the real world, and pondering the teetering, fleeting state of life through surface-level descriptions of the flow of light and darkness.