All Seeing Seneca grew up in Shanghai, a quiet child immersed in daydreams and the culture of animation and fiction. Limited media exposure in China meant she often sought bootlegs of beloved classics, inspiring her to create her own original characters and stories. Seneca later studied at RISD and committed to a career in picture-making. Her practice developed commercial clients while her own paintings and illustrations garnered prestigious awards and international exhibitions, including The Armory Show and her first solo auction art series with Phillips.

Her most ambitious personal digital painting series, the 2,880-piece Perils of Sese, sold out in under ten minutes. Since then, she has continued storytelling through traditional painting, most recently with the Albertz Benda Gallery in New York. Rolling Stone lauded her contributions as lead designer of BAYC, whose imagery has sold at Sotheby’s and Christie’s, with secondary sales totaling over $4 billion. The ape character she helped create has become a cultural icon, inspiring derivative works from The Simpsons to live performances with Snoop Dogg and Eminem.

Seneca’s practice represents a new world of art and accessibility, emerging with muted yet luminous palettes and surrealist expressions inspired by her love of the macabre, animation, and cinematic storytelling. In its purest form, her work is a visually tangible expression of inner life.

This work accompanies the 1/1 digital painting (print) titled After Jade: The Rabbit Sovereign (below)

In The Maternal Axis Crown, Seneca continues her exploration of cultural inheritance and reinvention. Executed in cast glass yet conceived for jade carving, this sculpture serves as theanchor of the After Jade series.

The work reimagines the imperial crown, an object of ritual associated with lineage, hierarchy, and authority. Seneca creates a hybrid aesthetic that merges Chinese ornamental elements with Western sculptural sensibilities. The crown becomes both relic and reinterpretation, occupying a liminal space between historical artifact and contemporary sculpture.

Framing the composition are two mirrored rabbit silhouettes, an unexpected departure from the mythological guardians commonly found in traditional Chinese design. Where dragons or qilin might typically preside, Seneca replaces the emblem of power with a creature historically perceived as gentle and vulnerable. This substitution reframes the hierarchy of animal symbolism: the rabbit rises above as one of strength and endurance.

The motif carries a deeply personal resonance. The rabbits serve as an homage to the artist’s mother, born in the Year of the Rabbit, further alluding to the lineage of maternal strength that underpins the art series.

This work accompanies the 1/1 digital painting (print) titled After Jade: Goddess in Bloom (below)

Cast in luminous glass that emulates the effervescence of jade, the sculpture reinterprets the traditional Chinese hairpin through a contemporary lens that evokes the symbolic architecture of the human body, aka. The pelvic bone.

Seneca imagines the pelvis becoming both the literal anatomic vessel and symbolic foundation through which generations pass, and a metaphorical axis from which tradition emerges. The matriarchal labor that underlies the continuity of culture - carried, quite literally, within the body.

While the glass sculpture maintains the delicacy and refinement of a classical jade carving, its structural language also details the design of armor. Curved plates, reinforced arcs, and symmetrical protrusions suggest protection and fortification, imbuing the work with an unexpected sense of strength. This duality showcases femininity as being both elegant and powerful.

Pelvic Vessel presents the female body not merely as a site of beauty or reproduction, but as an origin point from which cultural ancestry and tradition are carried forward.

In After Jade: Filial Bloom Comb, Seneca reinterprets the traditional Chinese comb through the cast glass language of the series. The materiality of the art piece preserves the visual authority of the historical adornment while noticing the unique change - the comb’s teeth delicately gnarled into literal root forms. Beautiful, yet filled with abstract meaning. This deliberate disruption renders the object nonfunctional, shifting it from tool to metaphor.

The roots evoke lineage and ancestry, challenging the meaning and use of inherited traditions. Through this gesture, the work invites viewers to reconsider heritage not as something merely inherited or performed, but as something continuously shaped and renewed by each generation.

A small dog-like figure rests quietly at the center of a spiraling fern, its curled form camouflaging the guardian creature Shermicus. 

Known in the artist’s narrative universe as the surreal three-eyed companion of the protagonist in the series Perils of Sese, the character appears here simplified and sleeping, blending into the organic structure that shelters it.

The spiral form echoes the abstract botanical language of the After Jade series while recalling motifs found in traditional jade carvings. The work connects personal mythology with historical material traditions, positioning the guardian as a quiet protector of lineage and imagination. Through a softened and newly stylized portrayal, the artist emphasizes tenderness and innocence within the sculpture. The piece reflects on inheritance not only through ancestry, but through myths and stories that quietly persist and evolve across generations.

In After Jade: The Small Heir, Seneca brings the whimsical surreal narrative world of her ongoing story “Perils of Sese” into the sculptural language of her After Jade series. 

Cast glass to emulate jade, the piece recalls the tradition of Chinese jade carvings in which animals gather protectively around a central figure. The artist references a specific carving called “Boy with Water Buffalo” from 19th century China compositionally and contextually. 

In this case, the child, Sese, becomes the symbolic heir, representing the next generation inheriting new cultural memory and tradition. The story comes together with this series as a convergence of personal mythology and historical material language.