2023 SEEING REDEMPTION 【47 WORKS】
2023 SEEING REDEMPTION
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Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 101223
10 / 12 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Art Statement
Since November 2022, I have embarked on a transformative artistic journey, relinquishing my previous focus on representational landscapes. Inspired by the divine, I have embraced a new direction, employing bold color palettes and minimalist compositions to convey themes of salvation, redemption, mercy, and truth.
In this exploration of spirituality, my artworks serve as visual narratives, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in the profound emotions of peace, joy, and transcendence that accompany the acceptance of a higher power. Through simplicity and vibrant hues, I seek to transcend the confines of the tangible, offering a visual sanctuary where one can experience the beauty and wonder of a heart at peace and a spirit filled with joy after embracing the divine.
My intention is for the audience to connect with these canvases on a profound level, to perceive the intangible sensations that accompany a surrendered heart. In each piece, I endeavor to capture the essence of the transformative journey towards an inner tranquility that transcends the ordinary, providing a glimpse into the profound emotions that accompany a harmonious union with the divine.
May these artworks serve as vessels of inspiration, prompting contemplation and reflection on the profound beauty that lies within the acceptance of a higher power and the resulting inner serenity.
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 101323
10 / 13 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 101423
10 / 14 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Acrylic on paper
12 x 9 inches (30.5 x 22.9 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 101423
10 / 14 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Acrylic on paper
12 x 9 inches (30.5 x 22.9 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 101523
10 / 15 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 101623
10 / 16 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Acrylic on paper
12 x 9 inches (30.5 x 22.9 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 101823
10 / 18 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 101923
10 / 19 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Acrylic on canvas
12 x 12 x 1.5 inches (30.5 x 30.5 x 3.81 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 101923
10 / 19 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 102323
10 / 23 / 2023
Temple City. CA
🖼《看见救赎 #10-2023》
✨ 中文属灵解读：
这幅作品中，密集如墙的绿色笔触，仿佛遮盖、阻挡着前行之路，令人迷失方向。但就在中央，一条由浅至明的光路劈开重围，从画面顶部贯穿到底部，如神的手亲自划开。
这一道光，不是从人间升起的希望，而是从天而降的拯救。那是耶稣在十字架上为我们所开的道路，是在最黑暗中仍然可见的“又新又活的路”。
画面没有人物，没有十字架的形状，但属灵之眼若被开启，就能“看见”那真实的救赎已经临到。
这不是一条通往努力的路，而是通往安息与得救的恩典之道。
✨ Spiritual Reflection (English):
The painting is layered with dense green strokes—like a forest or a wall, thick and enclosing, directionless at first glance. Yet, right down the center, a path of yellow light breaks through, cutting from top to bottom, like the hand of God splitting the impossible.
This light is not hope rising from the earth—it is salvation descending from heaven. It resembles the living way opened by Jesus through the cross, a path visible even in darkness.
There are no figures here, no crosses or icons—yet the spiritual eye, if awakened, can see that redemption has come.
This is not a way of striving, but of resting in the grace that saves.
Acrylic on canvas panel
14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 102423
10 / 24 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Acrylic on canvas panel
14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 102523
10 / 25 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 102623
10 / 26 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Acrylic on canvas panel
14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 102723
10 / 27 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 102723
10 / 27 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 16
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 102823
10 / 28 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 17
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 102923
10 / 29 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 18
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 103023
10 / 30 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 19
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 103123
10 / 31 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 20
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 110123
11 / 01 / 2023
Temple City. CA
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1) Catalog Entry｜作品条目
中文
系列 / 作品名：Seeing Redemption 20（38 Chelsea）
媒材：纸上丙烯
尺寸：12 × 12 in（30.5 × 30.5 cm）
签名：Sherwin｜110123
日期：2023/11/01
地点：Temple City, CA
English
Series / Title: Seeing Redemption 20 (38 Chelsea)
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Size: 12 × 12 in (30.5 × 30.5 cm)
Signature: Sherwin | 110123
Date: Nov 1, 2023
Location: Temple City, CA
2) Visual Analysis｜视觉解析
中文
画面由一组组倾斜的纵向笔触铺陈而成，深绿、墨绿与蓝绿交替，间或露出黄绿的“亮边”，像光在叶丛间闪烁。最醒目的是中央一道不规则的白色“裂口/通道”，把密集的绿色分成两侧，形成强烈的聚焦与方向感。整体节奏像风吹过高草或林间的竖向枝干：重复、推进、略带波浪起伏；而白色的留白让这种推进突然获得“进入”的可能。
English
The surface is built from tilted, vertical strokes—deep green, forest green, and blue-green alternating, with yellow-green edges flickering like light caught between leaves. The most striking element is an irregular white “rift/passage” in the center, splitting the dense greens into two sides and creating a strong focal direction. The rhythm resembles wind moving through tall grass or vertical woodland forms: repeated, driving, subtly undulating. The central white reserve turns that momentum into a sense of entry.
3) Creative Intent｜创作意图
中文
这幅作品像在把“密”与“开”放在同一瞬间：密林般的覆盖象征现实的复杂与遮蔽，而白色通道像一个被赐下的转折——不是你硬挤出来的路，而是突然被看见、被承认的“可走之处”。像一个具体地点或记忆坐标，使抽象的结构带上生活的实感：救赎并非概念，它往往在某个地址、某段行走、某个日常瞬间里显明。
English
The work holds “density” and “opening” in the same moment: the thicket-like coverage suggests the complexity and concealment of real life, while the white passage reads as a given turning—less a path you force, more a way that is suddenly seen and acknowledged. The subtitle “38 Chelsea” feels like a concrete coordinate—an address or memory marker—grounding the abstract structure in lived reality: redemption is not merely an idea; it often reveals itself at a specific place, during an ordinary walk, inside a particular day.
4) Technique Notes｜技法笔记
中文
你以高密度的平刷纵向叠铺，形成厚实的“帘幕”质感；在每条笔触边缘用黄绿提亮，制造“被光擦过”的闪烁效果。蓝绿的夹层使绿色不单调，增强空间层次与冷暖交错。中央白色通道并非规整几何，而是带着手势的自然弯曲，像用“留白”来雕刻空间——把最亮的地方交给纸本身，让纸成为光源。
English
Dense flat-brush vertical layering creates a curtain-like mass. Yellow-green highlights along edges produce a “light-scraped” flicker. Blue-green interlayers keep the greens from flattening, adding depth and temperature shifts. The central white passage is not a clean geometry; it bends with gesture, as if the space is carved by reserved whiteness—letting the paper itself serve as the light source.
5) Spiritual Reading｜属灵解读
中文
《Seeing Redemption 20》像在讲“道路从哪里来”。当两侧的绿色像压力、像遮蔽、像无法理清的重叠时，神常常不是先把两侧移开，而是先在中间显出一条路——起初窄、甚至不规则，却真实可行。那白色通道让我想到“在旷野开道路、在沙漠开江河”的应许：不是因为环境突然变温柔，而是因为神亲自把“可通行”放在你面前。两侧的竖向笔触也像众声喧哗、像不断下压的现实；但当路出现，声音就被重新排序：你不再被两侧夹击，而是被引导往前。救赎因此是一种被领出——从密处到开处，从看不见到看得见，从原地挣扎到两侧夹击，而是被引导往前。
English
Seeing Redemption 20 speaks about where “the way” comes from. When the greens on both sides feel like pressure, concealment, and tangled layers you can’t sort out, God often doesn’t remove the sides first—He reveals a path in the middle. It may begin narrow and irregular, yet genuinely walkable. The white passage echoes the promise of making a way in wilderness and rivers in desert: not because circumstances suddenly soften, but because God places “passage” before you. The vertical strokes can read like surrounding noise and relentless forces; but once the way appears, the noise is reordered—you are no longer squeezed from both sides, you are guided forward. Redemption here is being led out: from density to opening, from blindness to sight, from stuckness to movement.
6) Wall Label｜墙签文案
中文
Seeing Redemption 20，以倾斜的绿笔纵向层叠成密林般的帘幕，黄绿亮边如光在叶间闪现。中央不规则的白色留白裂开覆盖，成为一条可进入的通道——把压迫转化为方向，把遮蔽转化为道路。作品提示：救赎常在具体之地显明，在密处之中，路被赐下。
English
Seeing Redemption 20 (38 Chelsea) layers tilted vertical greens into a thicket-like curtain, with yellow-green edges flickering like light between leaves. An irregular white reserve splits the covering and becomes an enterable passage—turning pressure into direction and concealment into a way. The work suggests that redemption often reveals itself in specific places: within the dense, a path is given.
Keywords｜关键词
中文：通道、留白之光、密林、道路、裂口、引导、在遮蔽中显明、方向、旷野应许、被领出
English: passage, reserved light, thicket, way-making, rift, guidance, revelation within cover, direction, wilderness promise, led out
Seeing Redemption 21
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 110223
11 / 02 / 2023
Temple City. CA
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1) Catalog Entry｜作品条目
中文
系列 / 作品名：Seeing Redemption 21
媒材：纸上丙烯
尺寸：12 × 12 in（30.5 × 30.5 cm）
签名：Sherwin｜110223
日期：2023/11/02
地点：Temple City, CA
English
Series / Title: Seeing Redemption 21
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Size: 12 × 12 in (30.5 × 30.5 cm)
Signature: Sherwin | 110223
Date: Nov 2, 2023
Location: Temple City, CA
2) Visual Analysis｜视觉解析
中文
画面由斜向与纵向的绿色笔触密集铺陈，笔触呈条带状，像叶脉、草坡或林间的层层枝叶。绿色分成深绿与亮黄绿两类：深绿像阴影与厚度，黄绿像光沿着笔触边缘滑过。左侧有一块大面积白色留白，形状不规则，像被切开的空隙，也像一条弯折的通道；留白边缘与绿色互相咬合，使白不显空、反而显得“有力量”。中央靠近白边处出现一块偏蓝的形体，像水潭、影子或被按下的记号，让空间多了一层冷静的深度。
English
Dense green strokes—diagonal and vertical—form banded layers like leaf veins, slopes of grass, or stacked foliage. The greens split into deep tones and bright yellow-greens: the former carry shadow and thickness, while the latter read like light sliding along the stroke edges. On the left, a large irregular white reserve opens like a cut gap or a bent passage; its edges interlock with the greens, giving the white not emptiness but force. Near the white boundary, a blue-toned form appears like a pool, a shadow, or a pressed marker, adding a cool, quiet depth to the space.
3) Creative Intent｜创作意图
中文
这幅作品把“阻隔”与“通行”放得非常近：绿色的密度像现实的重叠——事情一层压一层，方向被覆盖；而白色留白像一个突然出现的“可转身之处”。你并没有把通道画成笔直的路，而是让它带着弯折与不规则，像真实人生里的引导：不是按我们预设的线路前进，而是在神所开的口里学会转向。那块蓝像提醒：在最靠近出口的位置，常常也会出现一段冷静的停顿——让人确认、让心沉下来，然后再往前。
English
The work brings “obstruction” and “passage” into close proximity. The density of green suggests layered reality—one thing pressing upon another until direction is covered. The white reserve arrives as a sudden place where you can turn. You don’t render it as a straight road; it bends and stays irregular, closer to real guidance: not moving along our preset routes, but learning to turn into the opening God provides. The blue form feels like a reminder that near an exit there is often a quiet pause—clarifying, settling the heart, then continuing forward.
4) Technique Notes｜技法笔记
中文
你采用重复的平刷条带来建立结构，笔触之间保留细小间隙，让底层的冷色与纸白偶尔闪现。亮黄绿像在笔触边缘“提光”，强调每一道刷痕的体积与方向。白色留白的处理像“负形雕刻”：不是补画光，而是把光交给纸面本身；边缘处的绿色回刷与层层叠压，使留白形成清晰但不生硬的咬合关系。蓝色块以较厚的覆盖出现，成为视觉锚点，避免画面仅停留在纹理节奏上。
English
Repeated flat-brush bands build the structure, with tiny gaps left between strokes so underlayers and paper-white occasionally flash through. Bright yellow-green highlights “lift” the stroke edges, emphasizing volume and direction. The white area functions as negative carving: rather than painting light, you let the paper be light itself. Reworked green edges and stacked layers create a crisp yet organic interlock around the reserve. The blue form appears with thicker coverage as a visual anchor, preventing the painting from relying solely on rhythmic texture.
5) Spiritual Reading｜属灵解读
中文
《Seeing Redemption 21》像在说：救赎很多时候不是“开阔地”的答案，而是“密林里的一道口”。当绿色像重重遮蔽与缠绕，我们容易以为只能继续被推着走；但神会在你不预期的地方给出一个留白——一处可以转身、可以呼吸、可以重新对齐方向的空隙。白色不是逃避现实，它就在现实的边上，甚至被现实的纹理紧紧围住：这提醒我们，神的路常常就在问题的内部、就在压力的夹缝中显明。那一抹蓝像“安静的信心”：在通道出现时，先让心安静下来，确认这是神开的路，然后再迈步。救赎因此是一种“被引到口”的经历——从密处到开处，从纠缠到清明。
English
Seeing Redemption 21 suggests that redemption is often not the answer of an open field, but an opening in the thicket. When the greens become layers of covering and entanglement, we assume we can only be pushed along. Yet God places a reserve of white where we don’t expect it—a space to turn, to breathe, to realign direction. The white is not escape; it sits right beside reality, even tightly bordered by its texture. This implies that God’s way often appears inside the problem, within the seam of pressure itself. The blue reads as quiet faith: when the passage shows up, the heart grows still, recognizes the way, and then steps forward. Redemption becomes an experience of being led to an opening—from density to clarity, from entanglement to light.
6) Wall Label｜墙签文案
中文
Seeing Redemption 21 以层层绿色条带构成密林般的覆盖，黄绿亮边如光掠过叶脉。左侧不规则的白色留白切开繁密，成为可转向的通道；近旁的蓝色沉静如停顿的记号。作品将救赎呈现为“缝隙中的路”——不是远处的答案，而是在压力内部被赐下的出口与方向。
English
Seeing Redemption 21 builds a thicket-like cover from layered green bands, with yellow-green edges flickering like light along veins. An irregular white reserve on the left cuts into the density as a turnable passage, while a nearby blue form rests like a quiet marker. The work frames redemption as “a way within the seam”—not a distant solution, but an exit and direction given from inside pressure.
Keywords｜关键词
中文：留白通道、密林、缝隙之路、转向、叶脉、提光、安静的信心、被引导、压力中的出口、清明
English: reserved passage, thicket, way in the seam, turning, leaf-vein rhythm, edge-highlights, quiet faith, guidance, exit within pressure, clarity
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 110323
11 / 03 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 23
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 110323
11 / 03 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 24
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 110523
11 / 05 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 25
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 110523
11 / 05 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 26
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 20 x1.5 inches (71 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 110623
11 / 06 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 27
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 110723
11 / 07 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 281) Catalog Entry｜图录信息
Title 标题：Seeing Redemption 28
Series 系列：Seeing Redemption
Artist 艺术家：Sherwin J. Wang
Year 年份：2023
Medium 媒材：Acrylic on paper 丙烯／纸本
Size 尺寸：12 x 12 in（30.5 x 30.5 cm）
Signature & Date 签名与日期：Signed “Sherwin. 110823” on front, Temple City, CA 正面签名 “Sherwin. 110823”，美国加州 Temple City
2) Visual Analysis｜形象与构图
画面几乎完全被密集的绿色笔触覆盖，像是一块被放大的草地或树冠的肌理。笔触呈对角线方向叠加，时而略微偏蓝、时而偏黄，形成细微的色差与节奏。纸张的白色在缝隙间不时闪现，像是光从叶缝里透进来，打破了绿色的“整体幕布”，带出呼吸感与空间感。整体既平面又略有深度，仿佛视线在一片浓密的绿意中被温柔包裹。
The surface is almost entirely filled with dense green strokes, reading like an enlarged close-up of grass or foliage. The marks run diagonally, layered in overlapping bands of green that shift subtly toward blue or yellow, creating rhythm and variation. Small slivers of white paper appear between the strokes, like light filtering through leaves and breaking the solid “curtain” of green. The result is both flat and gently spatial, as if the viewer’s gaze is wrapped in a soft, immersive field of green.
3) Creative Intent｜创作意图
这件作品把“看见救赎”缩减为最简单的视觉经验：只剩下颜色、方向与节奏。没有具体的形象，却有强烈的现场感——像低头看脚边的草坪，也像在记忆里反复刷新的某种绿色印象。通过排除叙事和具象，画面邀请观者停留在一种单纯的感受中：被生命色彩包围、慢慢安静下来，从而为“看见救赎”预备内在的空间。
This work reduces “seeing redemption” to a very basic visual experience: color, direction, and rhythm. There is no figuration, yet there is a strong sense of presence—as if looking down at a patch of grass, or revisiting a persistent memory of green. By stripping away narrative and recognizable imagery, the painting invites the viewer into a simple state of perception: being surrounded by the color of life, gradually becoming still, and making inner room for the act of “seeing redemption.”
4) Technique Notes｜技法与过程
画面由一笔一笔短促而饱和的丙烯笔触叠加而成，每一道痕迹都清晰保留，没有被完全抹平或融合。不同层次的绿在纸面上交错，局部可见轻微的透明度与底层痕迹，使颜色产生呼吸感。对角线方向的重复笔触，形成类似“编织”或“梳理”的动作节奏，既是身体动作的记录，也像是一种不断覆盖、修补、加深的过程。
The image is built from short, saturated acrylic strokes, layered one over another without being fully blended. Various greens crisscross on the paper, with slight transparency in places that reveal earlier marks and give the color room to breathe. The repeated diagonal strokes create a woven or combed rhythm—both a record of bodily movement and a process of continual covering, mending, and deepening.
5) Spiritual Reading｜属灵解读
在属灵层面，这片浓密的绿色可以理解为“更新”与“新生命”的场所——如同诗篇中提到的“青草地”，是被神带领去安歇、被恢复的地方。反复叠加的笔触，好像救赎的恩典一层一层覆盖旧的痕迹，却仍然保留一些缝隙，让光可以穿透。这些白色的细缝，就像我们在破碎与软弱中被光照的地方：不完美没有被抹去，而是被接纳、被拥抱，在光中被重新看见与定义。观看这幅作品的过程，也像是在一片绿色之中练习：相信救赎已经临到、正在生长、并将持续展开。
Spiritually, this dense field of green can be read as a place of renewal and new life—akin to the “green pastures” where God leads us to rest and restoration. The repeated layers of strokes echo how grace comes again and again, covering old marks without erasing them completely, yet always leaving openings for light to break through. The small white gaps are like the points where our brokenness and weakness are exposed to light: our imperfections are not denied but received and embraced, and in that light they are re-seen and re-defined. To look at this work is to practice, within a field of green, the trust that redemption has already arrived, is still growing, and will continue to unfold.
6) Wall Label｜展墙文字（中英双语）
Seeing Redemption 28, 2023
Acrylic on paper, 12 × 12 in (30.5 × 30.5 cm)
画面由密集的绿色笔触构成，如同一片被放大的青草地，间或露出纸张的白光。作品通过最简单的颜色与节奏，传达一种被新生命包围、在静默中等待被更新的状态。
A dense field of diagonal green strokes, with small flashes of white paper like light breaking through foliage. Using only color and rhythm, the work evokes the quiet experience of being surrounded by new life and slowly opening one’s eyes to redemption.
Acrylic on canvas
12 x 12 x 1.5 inches (30.5 x 30.5 x 3.81 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 110923
11 / 09 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 30 (38 Chelsea)
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 111123
11 / 11 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 31
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 111223
11 / 12 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 32
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 111423
11 / 14 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 33
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 111523
11 / 15 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 34
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 111723
11 / 17 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 351) Catalog Entry｜图录信息
Title 标题：Seeing Redemption 35
Series 系列：Seeing Redemption
Artist 艺术家：Sherwin J. Wang
Year 年份：2023
Medium 媒材：Acrylic on paper 丙烯／纸本
Size 尺寸：12 x 12 in（30.5 x 30.5 cm）
Signature & Date 签名与日期：Signed “Sherwin. 112023” on front, Temple City, CA 正面签名 “Sherwin. 112023”，美国加州 Temple City
2) Visual Analysis｜形象与构图
中文：
画面被一层层水平的绿色短笔触排满，像一块被放大的梯田、石墙或树篱的切面。深浅不同的绿彼此叠压，有的偏冷、有的偏亮，构成一块块“砖状”的色块。其间不时出现竖向与横向的白色缝隙，像光在层层绿墙之间划出窄窄的通道。整体是有节奏的条状结构，但因为绿色的微妙变化和光的闪现，画面并不僵硬，而是带着呼吸与流动。
English:
The surface is filled with stacked horizontal strokes of green, like a magnified view of terraces, stone walls, or hedges. Bands of darker and lighter green overlap, some cooler, some more luminous, forming brick-like blocks of color. Between them, narrow vertical and horizontal gaps of white appear, as if light is cutting slender passages through the layered green. The composition is strongly linear and rhythmic, yet the subtle shifts of green and the flashes of light keep it from becoming rigid, giving the painting a quiet sense of breathing and flow.
3) Creative Intent｜创作意图
中文：
在这一幅中，“看见救赎”不再是一片完全敞开的田野，而更像是在既有结构之中寻找出口——在既定的“格子”和“层次”里，慢慢发现光的通路。水平排列的笔触带出一种“人造”的秩序感，像城市的墙、台阶或者记忆被分门别类地堆叠；而那些被刻意保留下来的白色缝隙，则像是画面中被打开的小门，提醒我们：再紧密的结构，也容得下意外闯入的光。
English:
Here, “seeing redemption” is no longer an open field, but the search for an exit within existing structures—within grids and layers where light gradually carves its own path. The horizontal arrangement of marks suggests a man-made order: walls, steps, or neatly stacked memories. The intentionally preserved white gaps become small doors in the painting, hinting that even the most tightly organized structure can still receive unexpected light.
4) Technique Notes｜技法与过程
中文：
作品主要以扁平刷一笔一笔横向拖拉，形成厚实而带纹理的色带。不同深度的绿在干湿交替中叠加，既有覆盖，也允许底层隐约透出，营造出层层递进的空间感。艺术家刻意在笔触之间留下不规则的空白，使纸张的白与荧亮的绿相互对照，仿佛在“涂满”与“保留”之间做持续的选择——这也是创作过程中内在的节奏与祷告。
English:
The piece is built with flat-brush strokes pulled horizontally, creating thick, textured bands of color. Various depths of green are layered in alternation between wet and dry, allowing some underlying strokes to show through and producing a sense of gradual depth. The artist intentionally leaves irregular gaps between strokes so that the white of the paper contrasts with the vivid greens, enacting a continual choice between “covering” and “keeping open”—a rhythm that mirrors an inner process of attention and prayer during painting.
5) Spiritual Reading｜属灵解读
中文：
从属灵角度看，这些一层层的绿色条带很像我们的日常：一行一行的日程、一层一层累积的经历与伤痕，慢慢变成一道看不见尽头的“绿墙”。然而画面并不封闭——竖直与水平的白色光缝在其中交错，隐约构成十字的方向感：救赎不是从外面推倒一切，而是在既有的生命结构中，打开一道又一道缝隙，让恩典渗入。那些细小的亮光，像神在我们紧绷、重复、疲惫的生活格局中，留下的呼吸孔与出路。观看这幅画，也是在提醒自己：当我感觉被包围、被限定时，救赎已在内里展开，正在从缝隙中发光。
English:
Spiritually, the stacked green bands resemble our everyday life: lines of schedules, layers of experiences and wounds gradually forming a wall we cannot see beyond. Yet the painting never fully closes—vertical and horizontal slivers of white light intersect, hinting at the direction of a cross. Redemption does not always arrive by demolishing everything from the outside; it often works within our existing structures, opening gap after gap for grace to seep in. Those delicate flashes of light are like breathing holes and escape routes that God leaves inside our tightly packed, repetitive, and weary patterns. To contemplate this work is to remember: even when we feel surrounded and confined, redemption is already at work within, shining quietly through the seams.
6) Wall Label｜展墙文字（中英双语）
Seeing Redemption 35, 2023
Acrylic on paper, 12 × 12 in (30.5 × 30.5 cm)
中文简介：
水平排列的绿色笔触像一面层层叠起的墙，又像被切割的梯田与树篱，其间留有窄窄的白色光缝。作品在“涂满”与“保留”之间寻找平衡，象征救赎在既有生活结构中打开缝隙，让光悄悄渗入。
English short text:
Stacked horizontal strokes of green form a wall-like field, interrupted by slender channels of white light. Balancing between covering and leaving open, the painting suggests how redemption works within our existing structures, quietly carving passages for light to enter.
Seeing Redemption 36
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 112323
11 / 23 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 37
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 112823
11 / 28 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 38
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 112923
11 / 29 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 39
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 120223
12 / 02 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 40
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 120723
12 / 07 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 41
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 121023
12 / 10 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 42
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 121223
12 / 12 / 2023
Temple City. CA
🖼《看见救赎》
✨ 属灵解读（中文）
这幅画表面是密密麻麻的绿色笔触，看似混乱、封闭，像极了我们堕落后与神隔绝的状态。层层叠叠的绿，是罪的重压、是遮蔽的心眼，是世界叫人看不见永恒的帷幕。
但就在其中，一道白线穿透而出，不按常理、不循逻辑。那是一道救赎的轨迹，是基督为我们撕裂幔子、开出一条又新又活的路。画中那道留白，是眼睛被打开的一刻，是属灵的“看见”。
当我们“看见救赎”，我们才知道，救恩并非靠我们挣脱，而是主主动穿越我们的黑暗，来寻回我们。
✨ Spiritual Reflection (English)
At first glance, the painting is a dense weave of green—layered, sealed, almost suffocating. It reflects the human condition after the Fall: veiled from God, eyes darkened by sin, surrounded by the weight of the world.
But then—a sudden white streak. Unexplained. Unpredictable.
This single line breaks through like redemption itself, like the torn veil in the temple when Christ died. It is the path He carved, not one we earned, but one given in grace.
That opening of white—clean, pure—is the moment of sight restored. To “see redemption” is not a matter of human effort, but divine mercy cutting through all barriers.
It is the Lord who breaks in, so that we may finally see.
Seeing Redemption 43
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 121823
12 / 18 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 44
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 122323
12 / 23 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 45
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 122523
12 / 25 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 46
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 122623
12 / 26 / 2023
Temple City. CA
Seeing Redemption 47
Acrylic on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Signed:Sherwin. 123123
12 / 31 / 2023
Temple City. CA
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