Canvas:
This work is created on traditional Burmese hand-woven fabric, whose repeating patterns establish both visual movement and cultural resonance. The textile acts as a rhythmic ground, echoing musical notation while carrying embedded histories of labor, tradition, and femininity.

Technique:
Acrylic paint is applied directly onto the fabric, allowing the woven surface to remain visible beneath the figure. The interaction between paint and textile preserves the integrity of the pattern, creating a dialogue between the body and its surrounding visual rhythm.

Process:
The figure is built through layered brushwork that responds to the structure of the fabric itself. Rather than concealing the textile, the painting process follows its cadence, allowing color, pattern, and form to unfold together, much like variations within a musical composition.

Artwork Description:
Chroma Sonata presents a female figure standing against a vibrant, pulsating field of repeated motifs. Her posture is poised yet relaxed, suggesting both confidence and introspection. The elongated strand of hair that flows down her body visually links her form to the surrounding pattern, blurring the boundary between figure and ground.

The bold chromatic background operates like a score—its repetition and variation creating rhythm, tension, and release. Within this environment, the figure becomes a solo presence, her body a vessel through which color and movement are articulated.

Rather than narrating history through archival imagery, this work approaches memory and identity through sensation. Color becomes voice, pattern becomes tempo, and the female form becomes a site where tradition and individuality resonate together. In this composition, the body does not resist the rhythm—it inhabits it, transforming repetition into expression.