Arriving with the Lunar New Year, My First Art Launch of 2026

I’m thrilled to share my first art launch of 2026, arriving with the Lunar New Year. In Water Meets Stone, I draw from my time living on Vashon Island and from Taoist principles of alignment, flow, and harmony. Created during a three-week residency at Vashon Artist Residency, the series is shaped by daily rhythms of studio work overlooking garden and sea, my yoga practice, and walks along the shoreline where I collected stones. Rain-soaked spring days, coastal light, and cycles of growth and renewal infuse the work with a quiet attentiveness to place and presence.

Working on my own handmade abaca paper, I layer watercolor, colored pencil, and collage using prints and drawings on artist-made paper fragments. The series is rooted in the Taoist relationship between water and stone: water is soft and yielding yet persistent, flowing around stone, which symbolizes rigidity and permanence. Over time, water reshapes stone through gentleness rather than force.

Using watercolor, I traced the stones gathered on my walks directly onto the handmade paper, allowing fluid marks to echo water’s slow reshaping of stone along the shoreline. This process—water tracing stone—becomes a quiet record of time, touch, and gradual change. Handmade paper itself, formed from pulp and water, reinforces this dialogue between material and meaning.

Variations in the translucency and thickness of the abaca paper create subtle shifts in light, color, and texture, honoring the quiet transformations found in nature. Rooted in the Taoist principle of wu wei, Water Meets Stone reflects how yielding, patience, and attention can quietly shape both form and experience. Through handmade paper, intuitive mark-making, and repeated natural forms, the work becomes a meditation on material, place, and presence—revealing how softness, time, and attention shape both the artwork and the way we move through the world.

Explore the full collection here.