The literary and visual metaphors of water, which has been circulating throughout the artist’s works, flow in and out of the painting and weave the narrative between the ephemeral and the eternal.

The poem written by the artist in the previous page introduces the protagonist in the artist’s world who is born of land but was gifted the story of water at birth. As the protagonist tries to write down the story of water, all the vessels of text that exist on land (paper, stones, scrolls) are torn, rusted, and worn. 

In Blue’s world where it symbolises land as mortal and sea as immortal, the ephemeral being pours out stories into the deep blue water, the eternal carrier of narrative.

The story of the mortal is eternally inscribed in a fluid vessel of text that does not tear, rust, or wear. Just as transparent water droplets gather to form a blue sea, her works shed light on the moment of epiphany where the mortals take a glimpse of perpetuality. 

#Work 1: Water-bound Verses (Painting)

This painting seeks to hold the moment when the world of water—etched between the eternal rise and fall of the tide—folds back into itself, becoming whole. Symbols in my other works, such as dolphin, water snake, seaweed gather here, flowing and weaving a narrative.

#Work 2: For the Weary Minds (Painting)

The sea—cold yet warm, abundant yet simple, flexible yet steadfast—becomes the stage for narrative of Blue’s works. In a worldview where land is mortal and water eternal, new symbols emerge: dolphins for freedom and ideals, water snakes for instinctual desire, the moon for cyclical time, books for the will toward eternity. In this painting, seashells are studied which are symbols of birth and gift in Blue’s works

#Work 3: The Book (Painting)

The series ‘Vessels of Text’ arises from a literary question: What vessel could carry an eternal story? This painting is one of the triptyque which consists of ‘The Book’, ‘The Scroll’, and ‘The Stone’. First conceived during the solo exhibition ‘What Is After a Long Blue Night?’ in the UK, these works inhabit are transitional pieces that are in search of answers to the question once posed. Scrolls, books, and stones become recurring motifs, each a metaphor for the fragile yet enduring forms of stories. Through them, the paintings imagine a vessel that resists fracture, fire, and erosion—an unyielding cradle for stories that seek to have a glipmse on eternity.

#Work 4: Vessel of Text I, II, III, IV (Etching)

This etching print is a continued research on the same question posed to the third work submitted, “The Book”. While the painting series explored the vessel of narrative itself, the prints gave form to the images contained within each vessel. The print contains four different etched plates made with hard ground.

#Work 5: Epiphany IV (Etching)

‘Epiphany’ denotes a sudden moment of revelation—an instant when perception shifts and clarity emerges.  ‘Epiphany V’ is one of the Epiphany series which is comprised of five etchings. The print captures the threshold where two worlds converge: land, envisioned as the realm of mortality, and water, imagined as the realm of eternity. Through this meeting point, the works explore the fragile yet profound passage between the finite and the infinite.