Ren Zi

Worlds

  • landscape with female figures, hornbill, aso and hudoq
  • landscape with female figures, hornbill, aso and hudoq
    That Which Shall Be Restored … (2021), 320x640cm, Mural
That Which Shall Be Restored depicts the tension between the forces of balance and anarchy. Inspired by Nusantara cultures of South-East Asia, this universe came to life as a mural for an art exhibition.

  • quetzalcoatl flying above new york skyline
  • Rabbit trickster smokes hookah sitting on sign board
  • Coyote trickster sits on ferris wheel
When myth and stories fuse with the physical plane, we become immersed in the world of The City & The City.

  • contemporary mandala with floating islands and eyes of consciousness
  • woman surrounded by figures in gas mask and super-powered characters
  • contemporary mandala with sunbursts surrounding eyes of consciousness
  • giant figure with super-powered charactersagainst opart background
  • contemporary mandala with levitating figures surrounding eye of consciousness
  • giant wolf and super-powered characters against opart background
 We rewrite our personal narratives by Naming Our Bright and Dark Stars. Doing so, we embrace darker aspects of ourselves to transform them into strength, grace, transcendence.

  • landscape of swirling patterns, rabbit, laughing buddha dancing and boy popping out of magician's hat
  • landscape of coquettish female figures on patterned balls floating midair
  • chinese-style landscape of animals and animated mountains
  • chinese-style landscape of animals and animated mountains
  • chinese-style landscape of animals and animated mountains
Topographies maps our emotional landscape, and how memory shifts with time and forgetting.