CH’U

Title: “CH’U”
(Meaning, “to marry” in Chinese and pronounced, “chew”)

Size: 29.75” W x 28.375” H (unframed)

Story:
Every wedding anniversary, my husband gifts me with an antique Chinese wedding basket with another thoughtful present inside. This year, it was an extraordinary wood basket gilded with Chinese symbols of love and partnership. But this year, it was filled with a bounty of wild flowers from our garden. He said, “No hidden trinket or jewel would surpass the expression of abundance or vibrancy you have embodied in each and every day of our married lives.” I gushed and of course painted my gift for other lovers to enjoy.

Materials:
Acrylic and metallic paints on heavy watercolor paper, bathed in archival beeswax and UV-resistant polymers, bordered with insets of 17th century Japanese music and poetry composed for the Imperial Court, with outside panels covered with gilded Yixing plaster with impressions formed using 17th – 18th century Asian fabric stamps, adorned with four 16th century Chinese cash coins, affixed using melted religious wax collected from holy temples and monasteries, all mounted onto archival museum board.

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