Ana Wang works across visual art, poetry, and design to translate investigations of the world around us into artifacts of wonder.

She treats colour, language, and data as a shifting prism, literal and metaphoric, through which reality becomes visible. What we “see” is continuously shaped by scale, by translation, by where/when/why we happen to be standing when we look. Trust yourself, but also, don't. Rather than aim to resolve this, her multidisciplinary practice is rooted in slowing down long enough to notice the briefest, subtlest hints reality gives us. What it's showing: Instability is itself a sign of life, in-between is the natural state, and the documentation of change is a record of aliveness. Big things can be contained in tiny things. The sky is a big thing is an endless thing is a horizon is an end is a beginning is a dot is a small thing. A body is a dot is a planet, a flower is a seed is a star is a season is a life.

Prior to her independent studio, Ana hadn't painted in nearly two decades, so she started slowly—writing tiny poems about colour; then, entirely.