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The Tears of Fleeting Time

Yi Husan Liao

Silver Prize

A poetic and emotionally evocative work that transforms time, memory, and mortality into a striking visual meditation on loss and resilience.

-------- Review from Future Art & Design Award

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Project description

This mixed media painting successfully personifies time as a mournful presence, using the melting antique clock as a powerful symbol of irretrievable moments and emotional erosion. The surrounding eye-like structure enriches the narrative. The textured, fractured background further strengthens the work’s emotional depth, giving the composition a sense of accumulated scars and quiet endurance. The piece is especially effective in balancing surreal symbolism with organic beauty, allowing sorrow and hope to coexist within the same pictorial space; further refinement in the transition between the dripping clock and the floral ground could enhance compositional integration and make the metaphor of time nourishing life feel even more seamless.

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