W H Chong
Untitled (Waltz)
2021
oil on linen
230 cm x 96 cm
Courtesy the artist
'The figures in this vertical scroll are descended from the long line of figures in Chinese landscapes.
'The ancient scale relationships located tiny humanity amidst the cosmic vastness. The cosmos remains unimaginably vast but we are on the verge of destroying the life-sustaining gifts of our planet home.
'By tradition 山水 (“mountains-&-rivers art”) represented a benign Nature; the ocean was a rare theme. Here mountains and rivers have become rough seas, and the couple, the artist and his partner, are taking elegiac joy in a final waltz.'