沈魚, 落雁, 閉月, 羞花(May 2012)

(The Sunken fish, Fallen Goose, Eclipse and the Venus Fly Trap)

These four illustrations are done for an exhibition called Mutants hosted by Chloe Greenfield. They are inspired by the legends of the four ancient beauties of China and the stories of how their beauty managed to sink fish when one looks into the pond, make goose fall from the sky, the moon hide behind the clouds and flowers close up as they can’t match up to the lady’s beauty.  Since the exhibition is mutant themed, I wanted to create something that is grotesque but at the same time has a degree of beauty in it to show that repulsion and attraction is just separated by a fine line.