Water Studies
2026
This series uses water as both vessel and portal, a threshold where presence is felt rather than explained. In Jungian psychology, water is the most primal symbol of the unconscious: the reservoir
of our inner life's unknowable depths.This series holds what cannot be spoken but is always felt.
The series unfolds in two parts. The first depicts water in its literal form, guided by Liu’s darling dog Jupiter, who navigates with ease through emotional waters that are at times stirred, at times calm.
The water's surface acts as a mirror, visualizing the passage of time through the traces of wind and light moving across the water. The second part turns entirely inward, using abstract texture and color as emotional language. Each work flows like emotion itself, without fixed direction, in a state of constant flux that cannot be frozen, yet also serving as reflections upon the water's surface.
Together, the two parts are an invitation to turn inward, to meet what has been quietly moving beneath the surface, to become aware of what is felt, and to return, however briefly, to the present moment.
Artworks
Water Study no.9 Summer in Italy, 2026
Oil on Canvas
20 × 24 inch
Water Study no.5 Summer in Italy, 2026
Oil on Canvas
20 × 24 inch
Water Study no.7 Summer in Italy, 2026
Oil on Canvas
20 × 24 inch
Oil on Canvas
20 × 24 inch
Water Study no.8 Summer in Italy, 2026
Oil on Canvas
20 × 20 inch
Dancing Lights, 2026
Oil on Canvas
20 × 20 inch
Water Study no.6 Summer in Italy, 2026
Oil on Canvas
16 × 12 inch
Water Study no.1 Winter in Central Park, 2026
Oil on Canvas
16 × 12 inch
Water Study no.2 Winter in Central Park, 2026
Oil on Canvas
16 × 12 inch
Water Study no.3 Winter in Central Park, 2026
Water Study no.10 Summer in Italy, 2026
Oil on Canvas
36 × 43.5 inch
Oil on Canvas
24 × 20 inch
A Windy Day, 2026
Oil on Canvas
16 × 12 inch
Water Study no.4Winter in Maui, 2026
Unspoken Feelings no. 1, 2026
Oil on Canvas
20 × 20 inch
Unspoken Feelings no. 2, 2026
Oil on Canvas
24 × 20 inch
Unspoken Feelings no. 3, 2026
Oil on Canvas
12 × 16 inch
Unspoken Feelings no. 4, 2026
Oil on Canvas
20 × 24 inch
Unspoken Feelings no. 5, 2026
Oil on Canvas
20 × 24 inch
May 24th - June 4th 2022
Chinatown Soup
New York, New York
Group Exhibition