{"id":29458,"date":"2025-10-13T07:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/?p=29458"},"modified":"2026-05-31T16:04:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T15:04:35","slug":"how-power-impacts-creativity-unseen-currents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/how-power-impacts-creativity-unseen-currents\/","title":{"rendered":"Unseen Currents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Unseen Currents<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Two emerging women artists whose work resonates with unseen currents are Luo-Han Chen and Phoebe Hardwick.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Chen\u2019s paintings hold a sense of suspended potential &#8211; forms flicker at the edge of becoming, as if light and matter are remembering how to take shape. Her use of mineral pigment and silk keeps everything porous, alive to the movement between dissolution and emergence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Hardwick\u2019s women, by contrast, inhabit interiors where the body becomes a site of quiet resistance. Their hands, composed yet unsettled, holding the unsaid and transmitting something psychic, inward, withheld. In both artists\u2019 work, gesture becomes a kind of language: the visible world answering the invisible one.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/artist\/phoebe-hardwick\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29459\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/wp.media.newbloodart.com\/2025\/11\/13070929\/waistcoat_4f7e10503501a5086f8f27caf93b6f46-198x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/wp.media.newbloodart.com\/2025\/11\/13070929\/waistcoat_4f7e10503501a5086f8f27caf93b6f46-198x300.webp 198w, https:\/\/s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/wp.media.newbloodart.com\/2025\/11\/13070929\/waistcoat_4f7e10503501a5086f8f27caf93b6f46-677x1024.webp 677w, https:\/\/s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/wp.media.newbloodart.com\/2025\/11\/13070929\/waistcoat_4f7e10503501a5086f8f27caf93b6f46-768x1162.webp 768w, https:\/\/s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/wp.media.newbloodart.com\/2025\/11\/13070929\/waistcoat_4f7e10503501a5086f8f27caf93b6f46.webp 1011w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29467\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/wp.media.newbloodart.com\/2025\/11\/13071857\/night-atlas-page-xiv-lightseeker-fragment-no6_2_31d377978aa9fee88932630cc6ddc930-250x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/wp.media.newbloodart.com\/2025\/11\/13071857\/night-atlas-page-xiv-lightseeker-fragment-no6_2_31d377978aa9fee88932630cc6ddc930-250x300.webp 250w, https:\/\/s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/wp.media.newbloodart.com\/2025\/11\/13071857\/night-atlas-page-xiv-lightseeker-fragment-no6_2_31d377978aa9fee88932630cc6ddc930-854x1024.webp 854w, https:\/\/s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/wp.media.newbloodart.com\/2025\/11\/13071857\/night-atlas-page-xiv-lightseeker-fragment-no6_2_31d377978aa9fee88932630cc6ddc930-768x920.webp 768w, https:\/\/s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/wp.media.newbloodart.com\/2025\/11\/13071857\/night-atlas-page-xiv-lightseeker-fragment-no6_2_31d377978aa9fee88932630cc6ddc930.webp 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">\u22c5\u27e1\u22c5<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two emerging women artists whose work resonates with unseen currents are Luo-Han Chen and Phoebe Hardwick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dispatches-from-the-field"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29458"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30217,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29458\/revisions\/30217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}