"We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts." -- William Hazlitt

"Renard! It's a piece of heaven down here!" -- Jared Lim

Material Used: brush
Art Technique: watercolor
Topic: nature
Date Created: July 2014

Nature is the place where I seek peace and rest. If there is a heaven, it will resemble the tranquility and amazement of the Earthen forest.

"Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It's a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape - finally makes us look inward at ourselves." -- Tim O'Brien

"Lisa sits there, silently, before all the meaningless disputes and pompous discourses.

When I gazed at her eyes, she knew who she was." -- Jared Lim

Material Used: black marker, Microsoft Word "Marker" effect Photoshop
Art Technique: chiaroscuro
Topic: Mona Lisa
Date Created: February 2012

I'm the only one who deserves the power to define who I am.

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." -- Vincent Van Gogh

"Small cells form my multi-functional body.

Beautiful and breathtaking display of monitors is the works of small pixels.

Small dots express an art and an idea." -- Jared Lim

Material Used: ink pen
Art Technique: pointillism
Topic: small things
Date Created: July 2015

Material Used: pencil
Art Technique: segmented
Topic: living things
Date Created: April 2012

I frequently encounter the concept of building blocks in every aspect of life. We no longer put emphasis on apparent phenomena; we focus on the fundamentals of process and attain a complete understanding from smaller components.

"Before speaking her name she had been nothing but a gesture. When I spoke her name, she came to me and became a flower." -- Kim Chunsu

"The meaning of existence blossomed like a flower when I desired it." -- Jared Lim

Material Used:brush, pastel color
Art Technique: watercolor, pastel
Topic: flower
Date Created: July 2015 // May 2012

Flowers generally stand for beauty and love, but I put more values into their nature. Their existence explains how and why we are created.

"Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works." -- Steve Jobs

"I will design the world. I will design the future." -- Jared Lim

Material Used: pencil
Art Technique: chiaroscuro, 3-D art
Topic: Steve Jobs
Date Created: December 2011

"I miss you."

Material Used: rubber stamp, ink
Art Technique: rubber stamp carving
Topic: Steve Jobs
Date Created: December 2011

Occasionally I think about where we would be technologically without him.

"Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken." -- M. F. K. Fisher

"That's why life and birth are so exciting.

My heart flutters when I see the endless possibilities in a newborn baby." -- Jared Lim

"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg." -- Samuel Butler

"That's so complicated process for a cell.

Were I an egg, I would rather go through mitosis." -- Jared Lim

Material Used: pencil // brush
Art Technique: chiaroscuro // watercolor
Topic: life and birth... or chicken and egg
Date Created: June 2015 // October 2013

My mom just cracked two eggs from the refrigerator. I hope that was two chicks breaking their shells.

"Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy." -- Roger Tory Peterson

"Why do you envy their flight if you can fly the sky without wings?" -- Jared Lim

Material Used: metal plate, chisel

Art Technique: metal scratch
Topic: Eagle
Date Created: October 2014

Material Used: metal plate, chisel

Art Technique: metal scratch
Topic: Eagle
Date Created: June 2015

We envy birds' wings, and birds envy our imagination.