Ode Pt. 1 by HENRY HU Size:M - 50 x 70cm Snow-capped peaks rise against a

Snow-capped peaks rise against a deep sky

and the result carries real textural presence: edges are lively

the city's colour and energy flooding in behind it

White Hot 14 pushes Henry Hu's ongoing exploration of the boundary between inner experience and outward form into new territory

Ode Pt. 1 by HENRY HU Size:M - 50 x 70cm Snow-capped peaks rise against aOde Pt. 1 establishes the series' intentions with quiet authority. Henry Hu opens with expansive colour fields broad, softly defined zones that recall the meditative register of abstract expressionism, inflected with his own sensibility. Across these fields, mark making accumulates in layers: some gestures decisive, others barely visible, half absorbed into the surface. The overall mood is reverential and unhurried, as though the image itself is