Count your blessing
150cm x 150cm – Mixed media on French linen
The Artwork "Count Your Blessings" belongs to the series "Les Nouveaux Languages", which exploits the journey of becoming a global language of "emoji" symbols. Completing in 2020, “Count your blessings” not only celebrates the new language of our time “emoji” – the language of emotional characters, but also once again gives us how artists bring the most mundane things into art. The center of the artwork is symbol of “Raising Hands”. It symbolizes joy, celebration and rejoicing with each person's successes. More specifically, it is a harmonious combination of Calligraphy technique and color scheme through the background layer below the Raising Hands icon. The array of colors is extremely bright and vibrant, Although various colors are placed next to each other, the overall view is very harmonious; thereby showing the artist's ingenuity in the "playing color" technique. Hidden in the lower text of the picture is the message "Joy Life To The Fullest" and "Count Your Blessings". Kongo believes that if we live positively, the life will bless us.