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Oil painting Becoming by Percy Lin, showing a partially visible human figure emerging through layered textures and muted colours.

2026 · Oil on canvas · 65 × 100 cm · London, Ontario, Canada

Featured in the 2026 London Pride Art Show promotional image and recipient of the People’s Choice Award.

I didn’t know what this painting was going to become at first.

It began with texture, colour, and composition.
The human figure came later, emerging from a photograph taken fifteen years ago.

Death? Rebirth? Release?
Or simply being caught in the layers around us?

I chose not to answer.

Because maybe the question is not what the painting means.
Maybe the question is:

What is the person becoming?
What am I becoming?
What are you becoming?