Michelle Pan

Michelle Pan is a participant in Poetic Portraits, an intergenerational creative project to showcase the creative talent and diverse life experiences of different generations in Monash.

Michelle Pan is a multidisciplinary artist who draws, paints and writes.

Drawing on her Chinese heritage and the lyrical tradition of Chinese poetry, she approaches language in abstract, intuitive ways – much like brushstrokes on a canvas.

Deeply inspired by impressionism, her visual and poetic work seeks to capture fleeting feelings, shifting light and the quiet in-between moments.

Unwarped

He was asleep

Facing the other way

I stare and stare

Staring at the sunshine

Shining quietly

The little dinosaurs

on his hat

Were smiling at me

Time became vacuum

I forgot heartbeat

A Chapter

Today

I walk to the beach

See the ocean

From the opposite side

Has not

Changed ever

I should have drowned

The nights long

The water cold

the aloneness

But I did not

I touched

The shore

Climbed over

Today

I look at the ocean

Blue as ever