The article focuses on artist Henry Shum whose paintings are "dream-like," because our brains are not capable of devising the color combinations he uses. It mentions that most of the time his paintings are subtle, in an atmospheric manner, like the afterimages that appear and quickly fade when you shut your eyes. It informs that Shum also loves other painters such as Nordic symbolist Munch, classicist Nicolas Poussin, and German postmodernist Sigmar Polke.