"Dust and Light: The Golden Gate in Memory III" Artwork - Limited Edition of 10

I am Ziqi Yu, born in Guangzhou and raised in the U.S., where two contrasting cultures shaped my creative journey. I graduated from the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California, with dual degrees in Graphic Design and Environmental Design. Over the past 25 years, I have worked across the creative industries in both the U.S. and China, serving as Creative Director at Sapient, Magnet, and MarchFIRST, where I developed brand strategies and visual identities for multinational corporations. Yet, design was only the beginning of my journey. Over time, I transformed this professional foundation into a deeper artistic practice—one that fuses Eastern aesthetics with modern abstraction. My work is inspired by the wabi-sabi philosophy of Sen no Rikyū and the concept of emptiness (liubai) as a spiritual threshold, where absence becomes presence. I am an artist who explores spirituality through light and silence. My works are intersections of time, cosmos, and inner stillness—an attempt to capture the eternal resonance that emerges between deconstruction and reassembly, form and formlessness. Certain series are maintained exclusively for project-based and commercial contexts, while selected bodies of work are developed as long-term collectible series.