The sputter of my heartbeat thumps in my ear.

A bubbling tinnitus.

The worn helve of the pot grows dark in my palm;

An orange droplet, calescent,

sloshes over the rim.

It hits my arm, leaving a mark.

Slowly, the burble in my chest cascades into a rolling boil.

The drumming begins to swell.

Baptised in a thick deluge of haze and mist,

I put one hand on the receptacle and the other on my chest —

How astonishing it is,

To know this stirring.

Opus is a celebration of fluidity — the ability to embody both the complex individual and the larger collective. Oneness of the self and oneness of the group are not mutually exclusive. The HKBU AVA BA Graduation Show 2024 presents the works of 130 students; each a digest of the reciprocal influence we consistently brought one another throughout the course of our studies. We are simultaneously the affect and the effect, the cog and the machine, the butterfly and the hurricane.

我們在此相遇、相知。或辛或苦或甜或鮮，我們皆於此滋養出各自獨有的韻味。然後我們離開。

「嗒！」有什麼滴落，或似微風拂過水面，翻起層層漣漪；或如狂風驟雨，掀起驚濤駭浪。唇齒回甘，由精彩時歲釀成悠長鮮香，飄向未知的將來。

本屆 2024 年香港浸會大學視覺藝術院本科畢業展以「盪」為主題，不斷變動的時代之下，在視覺藝術院這個大熔爐中，130名畢業生彼此交流、融合，醞釀才能，盡情揮灑心血，將各自的靈魂融入藝術之中熬製。濃郁的炊煙填滿整個空間。我們期待與觀眾共同品嚐每一滴藝術靈感與創造力，共譜這場五感盛宴。