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THEN I SAW EROS CAME WITH ENGLIGHTMENT



This project is an initial trial for my inquiry, micro jouissance—ecstasy edged with pain, scaled to the intimate. Unlike the later works, Then I Saw Eros Came with Enlightenment privileges visual language and abstraction: restraint is translated into geometry; flesh into marks.

As a child I wedged myself between a tiny desk and chair until breath turned into labor—ribs into wood, spine into plastic. Each inhale resisted the surface; each exhale yielded to it. I also bit my nails raw and peeled off acrylics like scabs. These were tests of border: where does the body end, and what remains mine? The answer felt provisional, sometimes alienated.

Furniture embodies this tension. My grandparents made stools and tables; their rigid, domestic geometries recur here, pressing against nude suggestions. Like BDSM’s paradox, force produces a narrow band of freedom—a painful clarity. The paintings court that friction without illustration.

Formally, layered acrylic, charcoal, oil, and pastel keep figure and geometry on misaligned planes—they affect one another without fully fusing. That split echoes life in hyper-developed cities, where identity feels constructed on a transparent, untouchable layer: everything flows through you while nothing belongs to you. This series records that stance—intimacy with the uncomfortable, desire held at the edge of pressure—before the broader methods of Micro Jouissance took shape.









Untitled 1

1m x 1m
Oil, acrylic, charcoal on canvas.


Exibited at Yuan Art Cave, Hangzhou, China.

Exibition: “The Other Room” 





Untitled 2
20cm x 20cm
Wood, human hair, oil, acrylic, charcoal on canvas.


Exibited at Yuan Art Cave, Hangzhou, China.

Exibition: “The Other Room” 


Untitled 3


60cm x 50cm
Oil, acrylic, charcoal on canvas.


Exibited at Yuan Art Cave, Hangzhou, China.

Exibition: “The Other Room” 





Untitled 4

1m x 1m
Oil, acrylic, charcoal, oil pastel on canvas.