A Crumpled Piece of Paper in the Shadows

作品賞析

In her paintings, artist WU Yan-Yi is fond of capturing the lighting and colors of indoor window-side scenes. In A Crumpled Piece of Paper in the Shadows, she depicts a crumpled-up ball of paper on a tabletop. With a layer of elegant, translucent color, Wu weaves speckles of sunlight into beautiful lines on the canvas. A once-unassuming mass of paper seems to become one with the flat canvas space, producing a sense of flowing time. Wu freezes a moment from ordinary life on the canvas, not merely showing the object’s simple texture, but also filling the picture with thought-provoking quiescence and poetry.