touch

Only the sweet fragrance shall return belongs to a drawing series centered on the motifs of incense and hands. Within the rising smoke of incense, the artist simultaneously discovers the origins of departure and connection—tracing the paradoxical warmth of longing that persists long after loss. The faint watercolor lines hold the posture of something that once stood close, now dissolved at its edges. Like a fragrance that lingers after its source has vanished, the work does not depict grief directly but records the sensation of what remains. The small warmth generated when fingers are gathered together becomes the most human landscape of endurance—incomplete beings holding one another, making survival possible. To open one's hand and let go is not the end of togetherness, but the condition for it to continue.