In Between Exhibit Opening

Thank you to family, friends, and wonderful friends of friends, for coming to our exhibit opening last Friday! I had a great time being with you, and I hope you had fun too!

My lightboxes are the works behind two friends hugging each other. I had a great time working on my pieces, now I can’t wait to get obsessed over a new idea with its set of challenging questions.

Since I was so busy finishing my works for the exhibit, I failed to inform a lot of my friends about the date and venue of the show’s opening. To those whom I missed, please accept my sincerest apologies. Really sorry about that.

Thanks to Ate Tweet for writing the lovely introduction to our exhibit.

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In Between

A momentary pause. A blurred line. A gray area. A middle ground.

The place between here and there. The moment between now and later. The point between right and wrong, black and white. The space between a life being lived and a life that is yet to be lived.

Welcome to the state of in between-ness.

Unsettling to many by its very ambiguity, by its refusal to be defined.

Does it connect or does it separate? Is it the opposite of clarity–or the necessary condition for it? Is it the point of potential, the place where anything—or nothing–can happen?

Could it, in fact, be the place where truth resides?

Three artists explore this third state, the state between two defined states, where everything is and isn’t–and make it theirs.

In PHANTOM MOMENTS, Nikki Abaya captures the vagueness of things, the unknown, the forever mysterious, the “unnoticed variable between the idea and the action.”

In BECOMING, Dang Sering mines the place between her internal and external realities, the life that that is lived out there in the world and the life that is nurtured in the imagination.

In WATERFALLS & FALSE HOPES, Mimi Tecson revisits old aspirations and secret dreams, remembering “wanted passions in unwanted circumstances.”

IN BETWEEN invites us to make peace with the ambiguous. To trust in what is mysterious. To dance in the dark. And to make a home in the place of not knowing.

Tweet Sering

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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions”

- Rainer Marie Rilke