Yang Lu
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The Rogue Planet I : Collision Where the Story Begins
"White light -
instantly illuminating the sky.
Not dawn,
but a tearing.
I was stable,
yet something in me answered the void.
Not fully knowing,
but willing.
From silence to fracture,from orbit to unknown -
the story began
in the moment of collision."
oil on CNC wood and plexiglass, 57 x 45 x 3/4 in, 2025
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The Rogue Planet II : Orbitless - Is Drifting Freedom or Disaster
"I broke from the cycle.
No sun, no pull,
no voice calling me back.
Alone,
but unbound.
I drift -
not lost,
but free.
Every direction
is a beginning."
oil on CNC wood and plexiglass, 57 x 47 x 3/4 in, 2025 -
The Rogue Planet III: Hope - Until the Light Shines Again
"I drift, but I do not vanish.
I freeze, but I do not die.
I find light in exile.
And I remember the stars."
oil on CNC wood and plexiglass, 61 x 49 x 3/4 in, 2025 -
The Rogue Planet, 08/2025, SVA, New York, USA
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The Rogue Planet is an imagined journey into the cosmos - a mineral world cast adrift from its native galaxy after a celestial disruption.
Flung into the interstellar dark, it becomes orbitless: wandering without a star, without a sun, yet not without memory or will. The series traces its journey - from the violent moment of ejection, through the vast void and uncertainty of drifting, to the fragile hope of one day encountering a new star.Life persists on frozen land. Intelligence endures. Hope, through layers of ice and shadow, still glimmers.Each work in this series is a fragment of that journey - a chapter of planetary consciousness suspended between collision and renewal, between ruin and light.
