What happens when faith itself begins to fracture? Does it return sharper, or splinter beyond repair? In "Holy Splinters," Orangehare artist Tianming reinterprets original works by founder Chae Tongyull through a process of deliberate disassembly. Across 84 portraits divided into three visual categories, Tianming fuses the textures of lacquer painting and Buddhist mural craft with modernist distortion, “Picasso-fying” the originals into new icons of devotion and decay. Through fragmentation, what was once whole becomes luminous again, proof that even the sacred can survive the break.

What happens when faith itself begins to fracture? Does it return sharper, or splinter beyond repair? In "Holy Splinters," Orangehare artist Tianming reinterprets original works by founder Chae Tongyull through a process of deliberate disassembly. Across 84 portraits divided into three visual categories, Tianming fuses the textures of lacquer painting and Buddhist mural craft with modernist distortion, “Picasso-fying” the originals into new icons of devotion and decay. Through fragmentation, what was once whole becomes luminous again, proof that even the sacred can survive the break.

What happens when faith itself begins to fracture? Does it return sharper, or splinter beyond repair? In "Holy Splinters," Orangehare artist Tianming reinterprets original works by founder Chae Tongyull through a process of deliberate disassembly. Across 84 portraits divided into three visual categories, Tianming fuses the textures of lacquer painting and Buddhist mural craft with modernist distortion, “Picasso-fying” the originals into new icons of devotion and decay. Through fragmentation, what was once whole becomes luminous again, proof that even the sacred can survive the break.