Contemplation is a painting dedicated to my wife and her years living with me in Hong Kong. The work is constructed from strips of MDF cut to varying widths and assembled into a canvas stretching over three meters. Across its surface unfolds an imagined Hong Kong skyline—dense with vertical towers—within which the faint silhouette of my wife appears. Drawn entirely from elliptical pencil strokes, echoing the rhythm of her curly hair, her profile dissolves gradually into the mountainous contours of Italy.

The composition does not portray any specific district of the city. Instead, it reflects the geography of the mind: a quiet dialogue between two distant landscapes—Hong Kong and the Abruzzo region of Italy. One is a compressed metropolis of steel and light; the other, a horizon of mountains and memory. Within this contrast lies the emotional terrain of a life lived between cultures.

Years later, I now reside in Italy, returning often to Hong Kong for work and family. Contemplation has therefore become a kind of time machine—an object that holds two places at once, quietly tracing the intertwined journey of our lives between East and West.