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Tiny Jelly by Yian Lee. Visual artist ⚫️ Exploring the unseen within. A journey through Light .journey - Oracle deck (coming soon)

It’s easier said than done.“Good things take time.”Trust the process.🌱
07/08/2026

It’s easier said than done.
“Good things take time.”

Trust the process.🌱

Lately I’ve been letting myself play with all kinds of different materials, just trying things. It’s been teaching me to...
06/17/2026

Lately I’ve been letting myself play with all kinds of different materials, just trying things.

It’s been teaching me to step outside the frame and actually “play” instead of plan.
Especially with ceramics. I don’t map anything out beforehand. I just let the feel of my hands lead, let them make and play.

That feeling is honestly so exciting.🩵🌱

Some thoughts that have been sitting with me lately.This year, the real practice isn’t picking up more new skills. Not a...
06/10/2026

Some thoughts that have been sitting with me lately.

This year, the real practice isn’t picking up more new skills. Not another AI tool, not another software. Learning is good, of course. But what I think actually needs tending to this year is inner steadiness.

The turbulence of AI and the constant shifts in the larger world have left a lot of people unsettled. Halfway through the year, I can feel it clearly now — this collective anxiety has been building and building, and at some point it starts bouncing back. Being inside it doesn’t exempt you. No matter where you are in your own life, if you’re not paying attention, it finds its way in. Staying grounded through a year like this sounds simple. It isn’t.

Last week I posted a brutal confession about social media — that feeling of thinking you’re finally free to show up as yourself, only to realize you’ve just walked into a different kind of cage. After putting that out, I let myself follow my own pulse this week. When I didn’t feel like posting, I didn’t. And something in me genuinely shifted.

When I actually take care of my own state and stay present, the nourishment that comes from that is so much more powerful than spinning in place. New ideas started coming. The desire to create stopped feeling like it was coming from scarcity, and started feeling like it was coming from fullness.

Today I pulled a card, and it landed exactly here: the less I chase, the faster it comes.

I hope this finds whoever needs it. Depleted soil can’t grow abundance. We’re in this together. ✨

If these reflections resonate and you’d like more, I share slower, quieter thoughts through my newsletter The Quiet Signal. Link in bio to sign up. ✨

A brutal but necessary confession about creating, social media, and staying true to myself. Swipe through to read. 🤍
06/04/2026

A brutal but necessary confession about creating, social media, and staying true to myself. Swipe through to read. 🤍

05/29/2026

Matching your art to a scene in your life.

Every piece started as a feeling. Turns out some feelings already have a place.

Which scene feels like yours right now?

This is where everything started. The painting that settled my current voice, and where the journey truly began.A few ye...
05/16/2026

This is where everything started. The painting that settled my current voice, and where the journey truly began.
A few years ago, I decided to slowly move from digital painting toward working on canvas. Both my digital practice and my life had hit a quiet kind of plateau. I had grown, but in the growing, new confusions had started to bloom.
It was my first time living alone in the American suburbs. Suddenly there was so much time for self-dialogue. I tried, covered, repainted, and tried again on the canvas, over and over, never quite finding the voice I was searching for.
And then one night, Floating simply arrived. It grew on its own, right in front of me. When it was finished I looked at it and thought: there you are.
That was the first night I came face to face with my own subconscious.
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Floating
12 x 12 inches
Acrylic on canvas
2024
On view in Garden for Devotion, a group exhibition opening May 20, 6–8 PM (through May 29).

05/15/2026

Most of the time, I’m just pushing myself forward, acting as if I have every step figured out. But in the quiet moments, the doubt still creeps in. I’ve realized that clarity isn’t something you think your way into—it’s something you build. I don’t know exactly where this path is taking me, but I know that if I stop, I’ll be paralyzed by the weight of my own thoughts. So, I keep moving.

Cards have always held something I couldn’t quite explain.Not because of what they predict, but because of what they mak...
04/07/2026

Cards have always held something I couldn’t quite explain.

Not because of what they predict, but because of what they make space for. A moment to pause. A question you didn’t know you needed. A quiet permission to look inward.

I’ve always been drawn to the way a single image can hold so many different states of being, and how the act of choosing, turning, and sitting with a card can slow something down inside you.

That’s where A Journey Through Light began. Not with a concept, but with a feeling I could only translate through lines and colors.

What draws you to images over words? 👇

✨ A Journey Through Light is a series about the parts of us we don’t talk about. The unraveling. The in-between. The quiet moments before we rise. If this found you, it was meant to.

Coming in Fall 2026. 💫

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