A 2021 oil on canvas by Mao Yan in which the artist employs a reduced palette of cool gray and blue tones to render a landscape view at once familiar and uncanny. Mao Yan is known for atmospheric studies of portraiture and interior space; here, the studio motif becomes a site for investigating memory, solitude, and the psychology of the artist at work. Soft gradations of light and shadow pull the scene toward abstraction without ever relinquishing representational pull.