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"Feast of the Nanking Cherry" shows a black paper cut of a lone cherry tree on a sheet of Earth yellow rice paper. The traditional cut uses black to define the trunk, the top of its roots, the branches, the leaves, and the cherries that weigh the branches down. Lined up in brickwork formation, the panels of the rice paper have colors blending from yellows to browns, surrounding the tree and standing as a backdrop between its cherries and branches. Twinkling LED birds sway in the tree as symbols of 20th and 21st Century aspects of modern China that are coming to fruition and becoming regular fixtures in people’s homes. The birds are the electricity that is famously glowing brighter everyday in China’s infrastructural and cultural explosions, shining with a soft gratitude to the social additions and inventions that have carried the nation along the way, and looking forward to the country’s future. |
