Patterns beneath a restless mirror

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The water shifts constantly, but the koi do not hurry. Their colours scatter across the frame—gold against grey, red against silver. Each fish bends with the ripples, their movement gentle, unplanned. The reflections of sky and leaf mix with them, creating a surface that belongs to both air and depth.

The light is soft, yet sharp enough to mark detail: a fin turning, a mouth breaking the surface. The still image catches what never stops moving, folding reflection and reality into one layer.

After a while, the eye stops separating fish from water. The scene becomes pure rhythm, as if the colour itself were alive, breathing through the surface.

In the exhibition

Work 155 of 365

Before We Explain the World

This photograph has a place in the continuous exhibition, alongside the other moments Lu Heng has chosen to show together.

Meeting Other LivesAt the Pond

See this photograph in the exhibition