Emily Su, 2025
Acrylic paint on canvas
12×12 in.
The second painting in The Visitors series portrays a child caught between fear and escape. Led by smiling, spectral companions, he hesitates before stepping into imagined freedom, glancing back toward the life he longs to leave. His monsters, radiant with false joy, embody the fragile optimism that accompanies survival. Together, they traverse the thin boundary between fantasy and flight, revealing how imagination becomes both refuge and resistance in the aftermath of violence.
Emily Su, 2025
Acrylic paint on canvas
12×12 in.
The second painting in The Visitors series portrays a child caught between fear and escape. Led by smiling, spectral companions, he hesitates before stepping into imagined freedom, glancing back toward the life he longs to leave. His monsters, radiant with false joy, embody the fragile optimism that accompanies survival. Together, they traverse the thin boundary between fantasy and flight, revealing how imagination becomes both refuge and resistance in the aftermath of violence.