ARTWORK - China (Chinese Gods)
Title: Guan Yin.
Medium: Giclée on Canvas.
Date: 2011
Size: Variable
Edition: 99
This is an image based on Goddess known as 'The One Who Hears the Cries of the World'.
The lengend is a Chinese Cinderella story with a not so happy ending.
Miao-Shan was an unloved daughter who cut out her eyes and severed her hands to save her father.
She ultimately ascended to heaven to become the Goddess Guan Yin who has a thousand arms with eyes in the palm of each hand.
Title: Nu Wa.
Medium: Giclée on Canvas.
Date: 2011
Size: Variable
Edition: 99
This is an image based on the Goddess Nu Wa, who saved the world and created the heavens and the earth.
She mended the sky with 5 coloured stones and held it up with the severed legs of the Great Turtle. Besides stopping the flooding of the Earth, she destroyed man-eating birds and beasts as well as destoying the Black Dragon.
She is often depicted with the lower body of a snake.
Title: Lei Kung & Tien Mu.
Medium: Giclée on Canvas.
Date: 2011
Size: Variable
Edition: 99
This is an image based on Lei Kung, the God who specializes in thunder. He is often depicted with 3 eyes and 2 wings.
He has assistants who produce other types of heavenly phenomena. One of these is Tien Mu, who is known as the 'Mother of Lightening'.
In this image, the sins of a man has caused Tien Mu to use lightening to burn down his home.