Anitya--Windows Through Windows
2025 -Loy Luo Space - New York

New Exhibition by Loy Luo explore impermanence, perception, and the shifting boundaries between the visible and the invisible.
Exhibition: Anitya – Windows Through Windows
Artist / Loy Luo
Opening Night/ August 22nd, 2025 18:00 -20:00 PM
Date / August 16th till Sept. 18th
Venue / 101 Lafayette St, NYC, 10013
Website / www.loyluo.art
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Loy Luo:Anitya
Windows Through Windows
by Lulu Dakinah, August 12, 2025
Standing before Loy Luo’s latest works feels like standing before a silent window. Four celadon-hued panels join to form a complete frame, with light gliding slowly across their surfaces, and textures like hidden currents beneath still water. This ‘window’ opens not only onto a view, but also onto the other side of life— a threshold and a barrier, a measure of time itself. Between the shifting outside and the contemplative inside, the viewer senses a state of being enclosed, projected, and reflected all at once.
Windows Through Windows confronts the viewer not only with a scene, but with the self. Eyes are often metaphorically referred to as the windows to the soul, but when life itself becomes the entity confined behind wooden panes, how does our perception shift? This is what Luo invites the audience to experience— that in the subtle disconnection from being, one might touch the essence of existence. Each piece imbued with a philosophical depth, she continually challenges the boundaries of reality.
This exhibition builds on Luo’s earlier Window Variations series, where the window became a shifting metaphor for observation, separation, and the passage of time. In those works, windows framed more than a view— they framed states of mind, histories, and emotional landscapes. For Anitya: Windows Through Windows, Luo reconfigures this language, allowing the window to embody impermanence itself: a threshold in which light, material, and perception are never the same twice.
Anitya, a Sanskrit term, is a fundamental concept in Buddhism, alongside dukkha and anatta, which collectively form a complete depiction of reality. Anitya stands in contrast to nitya, symbolizing transience— that which is impermanent.
Somewhat similarly, anatta opposes the notion of the unvarying soul, but rather that the nature of the self is in a constant state of flux throughout life. Lastly, dukkha encapsulates the suffering tied to existence, manifesting in various forms.
In Loy Luo’s works, this idea becomes visual— the dancing light outside the window, the evolving emotions within, and even the stillness of the frame itself are fragments in constant transformation. The wood is perpetually aging, the acrylic fading; the space around it, whether that may be a blank wall, the dappled light and shadow, even the changing temperature -changing the personality of the artwork with each movement.
Before these works, each viewer finds themself immersed in the window’s impermanence— facing the world and watching time pass from within. Every experience will shine differently through each pair of eyes, as every single moment lead up to this one. Perhaps the serene landscapes paint a memory in one eye, a dream in the other, a mirror in another. The time and space around us hold the power to either limit what we see or enhance our insight… The frame becomes the space in which change is both inevitable and beautiful.
Anitya is so essential to aiding the understanding of existence as it cements the philosophy of change. The faces we meet, the places we see, all affect our perception of the next face and place we are to come across. The Chinese word biān (边) was is vital to Luo’s collection as the ambiguity of the definition offers layered readings, including both edge and change, along with the image of sitting beside a window. When considering each definition as one whole rather than scattered shards, Luo’s collection of Windows Through Windows really begins to flower. Drawing on Laoozi’s philosophy, she reflects on the frame not as a rigid outline but as the threshold between the invisible spirit and visible world.




