Kathleen Gillis 凱瑟琳.吉利斯
Oil on Canvas 油彩.畫布
32” x 58” 英寸 2006
A young girl of Asian descent extends her hands, reaching out across both generation and culture as she passes on an informational leaflet and a paper lotus flower, from which a bookmark sways below. Flowers above the lotus poetically imply the fecundity and beauty contained in simple acts of outreach and love such as this one. Items like the paper lotus flower are made by hand, each an act of creation itself by the likes of the girl depicted here. The lotus has the added significance of purity in Asian culture; its presence in Buddhist symbolism, as in the Falun Gong, is prominent.
曼哈頓講真相一景。一個法輪功小弟子把自己折疊的紙蓮花送給一個接受真相的善心老太太做禮物,希望知道真相的人們有個美好的未來。