AAPI Creatives Collective

Madonna and Child II

Muyan Zhou [she/her]
Seattle, Washington

This piece is captured from a moment between my mother and my brother. I thought it was a beautiful example of those moments of love within Asian families that are so often overlooked in western representations of asian family life. The placement of the trees symbolizes that though Asian familial philosophy differs from Western, my mother still serves as a shade for her young saplings. Furthermore, I chose to name this piece Madonna and Child II as an homage to one of the most famous Western portrayals of motherhood but in a new, Asian light.

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