Deradicalization
2026, Acrylic, sand, Chinese lacquer, and gold leaf on canvas, 30 × 40 in
Large black shapes spread across the canvas, surrounded by twisting red, pink, and white forms. Fine lines cross and connect these shapes, while sand, Chinese lacquer, and gold leaf add texture and layers to the surface. Luo began by letting black paint flow in ways she could not control, then slowly built new forms over it. She compares an extreme opinion to a line that has already been drawn and cannot change. This rigidity is something she recognizes in her younger self, making the painting an act of self-examination rather than a criticism. Here, deradicalization means learning to question beliefs that once seemed certain. Instead of covering up the dark paint completely, Luo keeps adding new layers over it. For her, growth does not mean erasing the past, but accepting what came before while allowing ourselves to change.
What a viewer finds depends on where the eye enters and what it tries to recognize. The painting is about that act of looking, and how we read ourselves the same way, assembling a self out of parts that never fully settle.
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Rigidity
This rigidity is something she recognizes in her younger self, making the painting an act of self-examination rather than a criticism.
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This rigidity is something she recognizes in her younger self, making the painting an act of self-examination rather than a criticism.
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Deradicalization
Here, deradicalization means learning to question beliefs that once seemed certain.
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Growth
For her, growth does not mean erasing the past, but accepting what came before while allowing ourselves to change.

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Deradicalization
Acrylic, sand, Chinese lacquer, and gold leaf on canvas
30 × 40 in
2026
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Large black shapes spread across the canvas, surrounded by twisting red, pink, and white forms. Fine lines cross and connect these shapes, while sand, Chinese lacquer, and gold leaf add texture and layers to the surface. Luo began by letting black paint flow in ways she could not control, then slowly built new forms over it. She compares an extreme opinion to a line that has already been drawn and cannot change. This rigidity is something she recognizes in her younger self, making the painting an act of self-examination rather than a criticism. Here, deradicalization means learning to question beliefs that once seemed certain. Instead of covering up the dark paint completely, Luo keeps adding new layers over it. For her, growth does not mean erasing the past, but accepting what came before while allowing ourselves to change.
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I began by flooding the surface with black paint I could not control, then worked slowly on top of it, building texture with sand, layering color, and drawing line after line in Chinese lacquer and gold leaf. An extreme opinion is a line drawn dead in advance, fixed and forbidden to deviate. I first heard that rigidity in my own younger voice, so the work is self-examination rather than accusation. The dark ground stays. Deradicalization means continuing to grow on top of it.
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