Pollination
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Acrylic on Raw Linen
105 X 147 cm
2025
The running race is the most anticipated and cheered event of the day. The best players are usually the fastest runners. But running isn't only part of the game, it's also a word our elders often use in everyday life. Especially those living alone in remote villages, whose children and grandchildren are now running-after better lives, after money, after status, far from home.
It's a word that carries both movement and absence.
This way of living is still new for many elders in the Tibetan diaspora, where the meanings of marriage, family, and parenthood are slowly shifting. Roles that were once central to the community are now scattered-or perhaps pollinated, by distance, ambition, and longing.
At the top of the painting, a phrase is written:
"This is the last call for seniors' long jump."
It echoes across the field like a gentle warning, or a final invitation, reminding us that time moves forward, whether we are ready or not.