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Before she unveils her large interactive piece, "Unspoken," for ArtPrize 2026, artist Ruimin Ge (VOTE ID #95779) wants to give visitors a taste of the “emotional and visual language” of her work. For September’s First Friday reception at ArtRat Gallery, she’ll help us create our own beautiful little works on paper. The simple idea: Take home a word, leave behind a stroke.
Participants will choose an inner state, receive or draw an artist-curated Chinese word or short phrase connected to that feeling, and handwrite it onto a bookmark to take home. Before leaving, they’ll be invited to choose one color and add a single anonymous brush stroke to a shared paper surface. (While your experience is a personal one, no names or personal stories will be collected.)
About her ArtPrize work, Ruimin writes: "'Unspoken' is a participatory public art installation that invites people to anonymously share something they have never said out loud — a regret, a memory, a truth, a grief, a love, or a silence they still carry. In response, I offer each participant a live Chinese calligraphic translation: a word, phrase or symbolic response created not as a literal transcription, but as an emotional interpretation they can take with them.”