Title: Sinking

Artist:Ma Ao

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Artwork Size: 50 × 60 cm（19.7'' × 23.6''）

Framed Size: 70 × 80 cm（27.6'' × 31.5''）

Year: 2025

Frame: Black wood-grain solid wood frame with white mat

Artwork ID: MBA-2025-027

Authenticity: Original · One of a Kind · Signed Certificate of Authenticity

Artwork Description:

Sinking unfolds through a visual language that feels suspended between dream and subconscious imagination. In the painting, soft white forms appear to melt or slowly descend, while a serpentine blue creature filled with watchful “eyes” moves through the composition, creating a mysterious yet uneasy flow of life.

The repeated eyes symbolize perception, memory, and the awareness of being watched. They stretch across the deep green background like hidden trajectories within fate itself. Without a fixed narrative, the work suggests an invisible force through the falling forms, intertwined movements, and silent gazes.

In Ma Ao’s artistic language, childlike symbols, dreamlike spaces, and subconscious imagery intertwine to form a distinctive psychological narrative—one that quietly reflects the fragile balance between observation, existence, and the pull of destiny.