About the Temple Series

The Temple Series is a meditation on peace, presence, and the quiet spaces that exist between worlds. Each piece explores a semi-liminal space—a place not fully real, not fully imagined, but something in between. These temples aren’t architectural renderings of actual locations; they are emotional geographies, built from memory, longing, and stillness. They serve as sanctuaries for the soul, shaped by moments of reflection and the desire to find beauty in calm.

Rooted in my Taiwanese heritage and the spiritual architecture of East and Southeast Asia, these temples draw influence from ancestral forms—mountain shrines, seaside sanctuaries, floating gardens—and reinterpret them through a contemporary lens. The series becomes a bridge between the physical and the ethereal, between tradition and personal mythology. It is where cultural memory meets dreamlike abstraction, and where viewers are invited to pause and enter a space that asks nothing of them but stillness.

Created with soft gradients, expansive skies, and gentle landscapes, each painting is an offering: a quiet place to rest, to breathe, to remember. This series continues to evolve as I do—each temple another page in the ongoing story of how we hold space for peace in a chaotic world.