Beautiful Dissonance
Beautiful Dissonance presents a basket of flowers at different stages of existence—some still vibrant and fresh, others already fallen and beginning to fade. Rather than treating decay as an ending, Chan observes it as an integral part of nature’s rhythm.
The woven basket becomes a quiet vessel of transition, holding together bloom, decline and renewal. The visual tension between the living and the withering creates a beautiful dissonance, a reminder that beauty is not fixed in a single moment, but continually transforms.
Through the accumulated flowers, the work reflects on impermanence, mortality and the return to earth. What once blooms eventually becomes nourishment for another cycle of life. In this sense, decay is not a loss, but a passage: from flower, to earth, and eventually to new life.
Janiz
Janiz is a visual artist who based in Kuala Lumpur. Her work engages with feminine sensibilities and ecological awareness, themes that became more pronounced during the pandemic. This period deepened her focus on care, vulnerability, and the interconnectedness between self and environment. She received her formal art education at the Malaysian Institute of Arts (MIA) in 1988 and has since developed a distinctive visual language marked by elegance, introspection, and quiet poetic mystery.
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