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Zen collections
Collection of zen paintings rooted in symbolic motifs, designed to evoke meditative and calming sensations. Through her zen paintings, Milla Chang seeks to convey harmony, happiness, and serenity, while also expressing gratitude for all that life offers.
Visitors to her exhibitions often describe the works as "mindfulness paintings," saying that Milla's paintings make them feel relaxed, or praising them as "amazingly relaxing and beautiful."
Discover these sensations, and many more, for yourself.
The paintings are basically performed in a japanese sumie (or sumi-e) technique with some personal creative touches by the artist. Each brush stroke is unique and made in a continuous movement. Once a brush stroke is drawn on the rice paper it becomes irreversible, barely retouchable and impossible either to be hidden erased any more.
Origins of sumi-e are in China from Tang Dynasty (618-907) and later was introduced in Japan by Zen monks more than five centuries ago. Nowadays this technique has more praticants in Japan than in China.
Materials: "chinese inks" applied over "xuanzhi" paper, commonly known as rice paper.
Technique: traditional eastern brush painting.
Collection
"POPPING THROUGH THE SEASONS OF LIFE"
"Serenity"; 2024 95x33cm
Video of collection of 18 paintings on Youtube at https://youtu.be/aaURHJWnWIo
Video of performing of a painting on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG7bmMT3CnI
In the year 2024 Milla Chang presents the collection "Poppying through the Seasons of Life", where the artist using simple representation of poppies, portrays the stages through the Way - the journey of Life (道 "Dáo" in the chinese language, 道 "Michi" in japanese language). The observers are invited to participate and sublimately to feel human emotions and key moments of their Lives such as Pregnancy, Birth, Schooling, Self-affirmation, Adversity, Resilience, Harmony, Serenity, among others.
This demanding minimalist painting style and technique, named sumi-e, is mainly performed in the East and particularly linked with chinese and japanese cultural legacies.
Each brush stroke is unique and made in a continuous movement. Once a brush stroke is drawn on the rice paper it becomes irreversible, barely retouchable and impossible either to be hidden erased any more.
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