Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Freda Tan

Wrapped

Wrapped reads simultaneously as firework, flower, and star. It captures the fire element at its absolute peak — the moment of full bloom, maximum luminosity, total expenditure of energy. Across cultures, fire at its most spectacular is also fire at its most temporary; the display and the disappearance are the same event. To be wrapped in this much light is already to be on the way back. What burns completely becomes the condition for what rests, and what rests becomes the condition for what grows again.