Han Grave (漢墓)

30" x 40". Oil on Canvas. July 2005.

Closeup and Angled View

This is one of the pieces that I wanted to paint after my return from Europe (see my "Schuworld" travel blog). After seeing all the art in the various Jewish Halocaust exhibitions and museums, I realized that there has not been many (if any) art that surrounds those who died in China during the same time in WWII. I wanted to do a series of paintings - not to be a remembrance of the event since I have not experienced it myself first hand, but more to release my frustration of the fact that the world only seems to care what happened in the West...and whatever happened to us Chinese in the East, it is not all that important.

This piece took almost two months to complete....partly because it took a lot of work (it has a 3D quality to it), but also I have been distracted with playing tennis. But in order for me to move on to the next piece, I have to finish this one first.