Ugen Yonten Project Diary

ProjectYear
ARCH_Duwamish River Bank2026
ARCH_
Rain Event2025

EXHI_
Encounters2025

ARCH_Happy Medium2025
RESR_
Regenerative Design2024

ARCH_Build for Harvest 2024
PUBL_Retrospecta 47 2024
ART_Still / Life /  2024
ARCH_House for Recollection  2024
ARCH_Building Project 2024
ARCH_Seeing Double 2023
ART_Monsoon 2022   



ART_ Monsoon2022



Claremont, California

Each summer the hillsides of Bhutan are flooded by a deluge of rain. On these days, sheltered under the safety of tin roofs, the absence of people leaves the landscape in a sudden stillness.  The paintings recast these mundane moments as something unusual: a strange quietness or an amusing condition.  These intimate renderings attempt to reimagine everyday moments into something extraordinary, where mountains transform into islands, chairs are in conversation, and a shoe suddenly bleeds. From its monochromatic and densely layered tones, the images capture a particular atmosphere, one that conveys the cool stillness and strange silence of a familiar and fleeting place.

Monsoon was exhibited at the Chan Gallery in 2022








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