开灯 Kai Deng

开灯 Kai Deng

Oil on canvas.
This is the first in the language series. This goes along with “Turn on the light”.

Kai Deng is Mandarin Chinese for “Turn on the light” and literally means “open light”. This series will show the idiosyncrasies and oddities in multiple languages. I will primarily be featuring Chinese and English, so to all the multi linguals out there: if you have other language oddness like these, please send them my way.

The original painting that featured this concept focused on the frustrations of translation between languages but after painting it, I realized the beauty in it and it spurred on the series itself.

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