A mixed-media artwork from artist Michelle Scott's Kukan Series, which pays tribute to Chinese-American author and producer Li Ling-Ai and filmmaker Rey Scott.
This piece incorporates collage elements, newspaper print, and painted portraits - highlighting elements from the 1941 Academy Award-winning documentary Kukan.
The upper circular portrait features Li Ling-Ai adorned with a red flower. The meaning of kukan - 苦幹 -, is "heroic courage under bitter suffering," a feeling that reflects the sentiment of "persevering against all odds," a sense of sticking to something in hardship to overcoming the hardship.
A mixed-media artwork from artist Michelle Scott's Kukan Series, which pays tribute to Chinese-American author and producer Li Ling-Ai and filmmaker Rey Scott.
This piece incorporates collage elements, newspaper print, and painted portraits - highlighting elements from the 1941 Academy Award-winning documentary Kukan.
The upper circular portrait features Li Ling-Ai adorned with a red flower. The meaning of kukan - 苦幹 -, is "heroic courage under bitter suffering," a feeling that reflects the sentiment of "persevering against all odds," a sense of sticking to something in hardship to overcoming the hardship.
