These next 22 paintings, ‘Hope of Gold’ and up to’ Patience’, were inspired by my ‘Wonderful Peace’ I made a few years earlier, my third painting attempt just before going homeless. Perhaps I was seduced, because I mused myself with the warmth and beauty, comfort and  solace of this subtle, simple yet complicated abstract style.
These paintings were produced during the very dark chapter in my life where I was living in that share-house from hell and were sitting around heartbroken with me before they started selling after I was kicked out and needed help the most, as if the universe had everything planned out already for me and had been taking care of me, especially when I was finally suffocating as ‘Tsunami’ and ’ Typhoon’ will reveal… and yet, they are all so, so colourful as if they belong to an artist with a much better life, a different story, another headspace, but no, they belong to me, with pride, as I take pride of my unique survival story.
I have got some of these beauties still waiting to leave the nest, but before then, I like to believe that the universe, as always, had been planning something better to do with them for my sake first.
Besides optimism and resilience, I think what makes Man’Si paintings stand out is the one, most important meaning behind them: gratefulness.
The importance of being grateful , patient, and gentle with oneself and others, and everything else in the universe, so everything else goes with you not against you.
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 Size: 40.5 cm X 30.5 cm