Riddle Trees (Part 8) by HENRY HU cartissi Figures drift through coloured atmospheres

Figures drift through coloured atmospheres

creating a sense of direction and possibility

water-weed forms

Flat washes of green sit against a pale ground

Riddle Trees (Part 8) by HENRY HU cartissi Figures drift through coloured atmospheresRiddle Trees Part 8 closes this chapter of Hu's series with a composition that feels simultaneously resolved and open. The familiar tree structures have thinned and opened out, the marks more sparse, the intervals between forms more deliberate. What remains is a distilled version of the series' essential tension between structure and dissolution, presence and absence. The work has the clarity of something arrived at rather than planned, its economy of