Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Jenny Vong

For You, Only You (ii)

This sculpture piece is intended to hold Japanese flower arrangements. As flowers bloom and wither from within the dead bird’s body, the sculpture becomes in harmony with beauty, loss, and renewal. As so do we live, love, lose and grieve. “For You, Only You (ii)” embodies Wabi Sabi. Wabi Sabi, by definition, is “a Japanese concept of seeing the world that finds beauty and harmony in what is simple, imperfect, natural, modest and mysterious.” This sculpture, in other words, is a symbol of how grief can be understood as a measure of love and how the act of letting go emerges as both an aesthetic and ethical practice.This artwork does not seek flawless or permanent; it honours cracks, patina, and the impermanence of all things (in this case, wilted flowers). A philosophy of existence, in the living, one that finds profound beauty in what is imperfect and impermanent.