Mai-Hien Tran

Kaleidoscope III: Flying Through Time

24 x 36 x 1.5"

Acrylic and Paper Origami on Canvas

$875

“Kaleidoscope III: Flying Through Time” features a flock of cranes in a cloudy space. Origami cranes evoke childhood memories personally, and may symbolize hope and peace in general. Iridescent colors make the scene shift in different lights, reflecting the ever-changing, undefined nature of life.

Artist's Statement:

I spent my childhood with my grandparents in Vietnam, when we barely had electricity, clean water, food and clothes. Luckily, my grandparents raised me in an abundant life with their high-skills and education. Among reading and writing and many games, they taught me the art of origami.
At this present time, being a multimedia artist who works primarily with acrylic and oil paint, I decided to incorporate origami into my artwork in my newest series,“Kaleidoscope.” The origami butterflies are made from pages of “The New Yorker” magazine, which represented to me an ideal of writing, poetry, and culture. Current events and the minutiae of everyday life swoop over the canvas.
The series is the way I merged the skill that I carried from my childhood, to the abundant life that I am luckily living today. I know somewhere in the sky, my grandparents are proud of me.