In her new series of ethereal paintings, AOTH transports us back to the past. The themes explored across each work—uncertainty, risk-taking, joy, loneliness and connection—are at once universal and intimate, taking us on a journey across time and space through past relationships and into childhood. In Look Back and Laugh, the viewer is compelled to contemplate the cacophony of emotions that precede a relationship, every single scenario possible and present in each moment. The possibility and promise is a tension across the series that never quite breaks, but dissolves into the next emotion, choice and relationship—and next abstract work.

“Xin,” which means “Heart,” speaks to the core of it all, all the laughter, loss and love we experience from childhood to adulthood.