Rebirth from the messy woods 乱木重生
2021
Water color and tempera on water color paper
30" x 40"; 76cm x 102cm
During the quarantine, I don’t have a chance to travel. The place where I live is very close to Tilden Park. Recently I realized that the nature that I long for is in my backyard! I can stay there in the woods for a long time, sometimes taking pictures or sketching. I admire the tree’s persistence in time and immunity to aging; And I envy them even when they wither, and they return to back to nature in the most beautiful way, decomposing. Here I find a place for my work to take shape. I hope that despite the global epidemic, pandemic, we can still find a similarly harmonious posture and inner peace for ourselves, others, and the world.
All images copyright by Amy Zheng