Molly’s Friends
A spontaneous conversation through sound and painting.
About the Project
We are a pianist and a painter.
Friends, improvisers, storytellers.
As human beings, we are always trying to share ourselves with others.
Most of the time, we do this through language. Yet sometimes, even when we speak many languages, words still feel limited. Some feelings cannot be translated so easily. Some memories, dreams, and thoughts exist somewhere beyond language.
So we began to search for another way of communicating.
Through sound, colours, shapes, and movement, we improvise together in the moment. One on the piano, one on the canvas. Every performance begins with a single topic, a single thought, a single feeling — sometimes as large as culture, humanity, or traditions, and sometimes as small and intimate as a favourite colour, a meal we love, or a dream we once had.
Nothing is planned completely.
Every painting is spontaneous.
Every note is undecided until the moment it appears.
All the expressions that emerge are simply our own ways of understanding and experiencing the world. At the same time, we hope people can also feel free to experience the work in their own way — to interpret it, feel it, and express themselves in whatever way feels honest and comfortable to them.
Maybe you will see something completely different from what we see.
And that is beautiful to us.
Because perhaps understanding each other perfectly is not the most important thing.
Maybe the most important thing is simply the desire to share.
No matter what language we speak, we are all still trying to reach each other.
Highlight Video
Nothing here was planned completely.
Artists
The people behind Molly’s Friends.
Pian Vane – Piano
Pian plays piano like collecting fragments of dreams, memories, and conversations that never fully become words. Through improvisation, she moves between sound, silence, texture, and emotion, allowing music to unfold instinctively in the moment. Rooted in jazz but drawn toward atmosphere and human connection, she treats music as a shared space, fragile, spontaneous, and always becoming.
Kay Zeng – Painting
Kay drifts through the spaces between language and silence, searching for ways of understanding and sharing beyond words. Through spontaneous painting, gesture, colour, and movement, she explores emotion, atmosphere, and the quiet tensions carried within human presence. Rather than creating fixed images, she treats painting as a living conversation, intuitive, temporary, and unfolding in the moment.
Credits
Pian Vane – Sound/Piano
Kay Zeng – Painting/Video
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