睡美人  Red Sleeping Beauty, 2005

48 x 210 cm; Chinese ink on rice paper. This painting depicts the standard of beauty during the Tang Dynasty, a time when voluptuous women were considered beautiful and attractive. Portly women were seen as healthy and natural. It was also a period that Taoism flourished. The Taoism religion, which is based on Taoism philosophy, was the religion of the State under several reigns in China