Intermezzo 
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Intermezzo is a body of work that explores the architecture of transition—emotional, spiritual, and temporal. Borrowed from the musical term for a passage between movements, the title reflects a space of suspension: between presence and absence, movement and stillness, clarity and unknowing. The series centers on the repeated arch—an elemental form that evokes thresholds, sanctuaries, and states of becoming. Several works are composed through what I call heat drawings—canvases and paper marked by a heated tool, where burn becomes both line and memory. In other pieces, ashes from incense and burned joss paper introduces ritual as material, layering the visual field with spiritual and ancestral presence. Through this slow and deliberate process, Intermezzo constructs spaces that hold tension between permanence and impermanence, shadow and illumination.