When Mind Stirs, Tides Arise

Artist: Yuchun Wu
Original title: 《一念澜生》
Medium: Silk
Size: 45cm * 35cm
Year: 2025

A spirit monkey sits amid layered tides of silver, indigo, and grey—waves like silken ribbons, restless as countless thoughts quietly stirring beneath stillness. Its lowered lids, blushed cheeks, and pink-tipped palms cradle a curling vapour, a thought given form. The monkey is the authentic self; the waves, the flux of mind. The vapour it holds is both thought externalised and the calm after its passing. Only when the self is truly seen can one thought and the tides it births find balance between motion and stillness.