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Portrait on the left taken at 813 Broadway; portrait on the right taken at 6th Ave. between 21st and 22nd.
Bin Xiao ‘Inheritance’, Universal Creative Park in front of the Minsheng Art Museum / 北京民生现代美术馆, Beijing
Artist Statement (by MelOrchid):
“Inheritance of Silence” examines the unseen structures that shape identity—what is passed down, preserved, and quietly imposed.
The figure emerges as both monument and vessel, crowned not with thought, but with accumulation. The floral mass obscuring the eyes is deliberate: vision is interrupted by legacy, by memory layered too densely to see through clearly. Butterflies inhabit this space as fragile witnesses—symbols of transformation that occur even when we are not fully aware of them.
The red threads move laterally, not violently, suggesting connection rather than rupture. They bind, guide, and restrain simultaneously. Below, the classical architecture functions as the mind’s foundation—orderly, inherited, and unquestioned—resting on unstable terrain.
My work often explores the tension between internal experience and inherited structure. I am interested in how beauty can function as a veil, and how identity is shaped as much by what we cannot see as by what is made visible.
This piece is not about losing sight—it is about learning what has been standing in the way.
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