China Door Triptych
China Door Triptych
20 in x 48 in acrylic on gessoed Masionite®
China Door is one of the larger paintings included in my Gifts of Art exhibition at University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This painting was finished in 2003 and has been shown in a number of exhibitions. It consists of three panels including an old man, Chinese wardrobe doors, and a small child in a courtyard.
While we were traveling through a small village in China, I saw this old man sunning himself by his doorway and later a small child ran out of another doorway right toward us. The courtyard the child came from was filled with smoke from his mother's outdoor cookstove. Later I kept thinking about these two images and wondering how this child’s life might be different from that of the old man. I included the doors as a symbolic image of future intrigue and possibility connecting the two.
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