"Letters of Healing": An Introspective Exhibition with Vespera Meng and Patricia Fernández
Soft Closing (Finissage) of the Exhibition on Saturday, November 8, 2025, 4pm-6pm. All are welcome, no booking of time slot necessary. 🙂
Exhibition Dates: October 17 – November 8, 2025
(Wednesdays – Saturdays, 3pm – 7pm)
Due to the nature of the exhibition, please book a time slot to visit using the form below. We will then send you a confirmation mail. Groups welcome!
“Letters of Healing” is an introspective exhibition that centers writing and poetry as tools of self-reflection, inner exploration and healing. Visitors are invited to dwell in a space of quiet contemplation and calm created by the textile poems, writing prompts and sound meditations of poet and expressive arts healer Vespera Meng, accompanied by a series of letters written by artist Patricia Fernández over the course of a decade to her friend and gallerist, Young Chung. Both Meng’s and Fernández’s works are extended propositions fundamentally built on trust, friendship and connection (with self) – they mark the passage of time in both linear and cyclical ways, marking moments of death, rebirth and transformation. Their acts of writing become acts of commitment to “share – expand – grow – [and] record” (Fernández), just as the acts of immersive listening, reading and inscription that visitors are warmly welcome to engage in over the duration of the exhibition will leave traces in the space for others to encounter. Mental Health Arts Space thus becomes at once a site of immersive encounter and healing in (self-)care and community with others.
Exhibition Concept and Curation: Kathy-Ann Tan
Vespera Meng, a.k.a. Ms Butterfly grew up between Hong Kong and Beijing. A graduate of Swarthmore College with a major in Philosophy and a minor in Peace and Conflict Studies, she is an educator, poet, philosopher and expressive arts healer. As a spoken word poet she touches on themes of healing, nature and love and has performed on different stages around the world. Currently, she is in a PhD program for expressive arts therapy and education, running her own writing teaching organisation Butterfly Center for Aesthetic Education and writing a blog at https://lettersofhealing.substack.com. Check out Vespera’s Instagram.
Patricia Fernández is an artist born in Burgos, Spain, who lives and works between Los Angeles, Joshua Tree and Madrid. Her work includes a research aspect out in the field, as well as a painting and object making studio practice. Her works emerge from an interest in history, texture and time contained within landscape. She uses personal narrative, memory, omission, and abstraction to transmit histories and build connections between people and places. By applying an archeological approach to the family archive, the work reveals the inaccuracy of our inherited memories and the subjectivity of personal experience. Painting, drawing, carving and object making are the tools used to recuperate an unknown history.
She is a recipient of the COLA-IMAP (2023), Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant (2019), Pollock Krasner Grant (2017), California Community Foundation Fellowship (2011), and France Los Angeles Exchange Grant (2012). She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in the last decade, including at the Armoury Art Center, Pasadena, CA; Whistle Gallery, Seoul; and Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles. Check out Patricia’s website.