Tai Lipan

The Silent Descent

My recent paintings envision spaces hidden beneath monumental landscapes, moving between surface and subterranean realms. Imagining the ruins of civilization, both modern and ancient, these works feel at once historical and anticipatory, shaped by loss and hope. In intimate relief paintings, cracks and crevices of imagined rock formations shelter quiet dwellings, suggesting sites of refuge. The rock becomes both witness and protector. Confronting human-driven destruction, the work proposes a speculative world in which the earth, despite harm inflicted upon it, continues to offer refuge.