Leonardo da Vinci famously described painting as “poetry which is seen and not heard” and poetry as “a painting which is heard but not seen,” but I think Luchong’s work complicates this distinction. Her paintings ask to be seen, and they also invite us to imagine what cannot be seen or heard.
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