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Rey Yen Ho
Bone House
Oil on Canvas
My skull is a big bone house
as wide as a canyon
as narrow as a crack of the door
It’s cluttered with nicknacks, trinkets,
old toys
and that hair tie I always misplace
There’s dust as far as the eye can see
but I have a hard time letting things go.
I am very familiar with the silence
with the space
with being alone
Space is wonderful
silence is wonderful
except
I wish you would leave footprints where the dust used to be
Look at you. I want you around.
Tip-toe quietly
or trample loudly
kicking up dust
There has never been a more welcome guest
a more treasured visitor
than you.
I am grateful for every sound
every sensation
in this tender reality.
Or is it a dream?
Linger in the mirror a little longer. I want to see your face
I see my interior in your exterior.
Size: 61 × 122 cm
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About Rey Yen Ho
Rey Yen Ho is an artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. She specialises in portraiture and figuration, depicting the most private and intimate moments in the everyday lives of imagined young people. Her work teeters between, vulnerable and voyeuristic, polished and raw, tender and bruising.
For further inquiries, contact reyhartmelbourne@gmail.com
For further viewing visit @r.y.h.o.art on Instagram.
