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No Hearing or Breathing, No Movements, No Color signed and dated 2014 (lower right) oil on canvas 48" x 60" (122 cm x 152 cm) Accompanied by a certificate signed by the artist confirming the authenticity of this lot PROVENANCE Tin-Aw Art Gallery Since his first solo exhibition in 2008 at West Gallery, Ching has exhibited widely in both solo and group presentations in the Philippines and across Southeast Asia, including Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. His works are marked by a quiet intensity and an attentiveness to spaces that are at once familiar and subtly estranged. Drawing from everyday interiors, personal memory, and imagined scenarios, Ching constructs scenes that invite prolonged looking, where narrative is suggested but never fully resolved, allowing mood and atmosphere to carry the emotional weight of the image. In the present work, Ching depicts an intimate domestic interior divided across two panels, as if glimpsed in fragments or through shifting recollection. A piano and empty chair occupy one side, while on the other, a seated figure cradles a bouquet, flanked by soft drapery and scattered birds on the floor. The meticulous, almost pointillist handling of paint lends the scene a hushed stillness, heightening its sense of quiet suspension. Light filters gently through the space, softening edges and blurring distinctions between presence and absence, action and pause. The split composition subtly disrupts continuity, suggesting emotional distance or the passage of time, while the carefully arranged objects—musical instruments, flowers, curtains, birds—function as quiet symbols of longing, tenderness, and fragile calm. Through this restrained yet evocative tableau, Ching transforms a seemingly ordinary interior into a contemplative meditation on solitude, memory, and the quiet dramas that unfold within private spaces. (Jed Daya)