“The lotus blooms from the mud yet stays unstained. I hung that heart here for a season.”
Mandarin ducks drift over a pond full of lotus blossoms — the signature work hung at this museum's entrance.
“The painting she held onto longest. She layered it again and again, they say, so each leaf would soak up the season.”
'On this picnic called life, I am happy to have met you.' A dragonfly above the lotus.
The Lord is my shepherd — a grand work where calligraphy and lotus meet on a single sheet.
'Peace be with you. Do not be afraid.' The name of the altar Gideon built — Jehovah Shalom, the Lord is peace.
“A work also used as an exhibition banner. With one broad sweep of the brush, she poured peace into the single word 'shalom,' they say.”
Peonies in a jar, inscribed with the line 'every moment, a flower bud.'
She asks the bird chirping at the window after the mountains — are the azaleas in full bloom?
White magnolias just opening. 'Cheering you on toward a dazzling tomorrow.'
