The Goddess & The Monk Series
2018
Watercolor & ink on rice paper
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The Goddess is a series of drawings of trees, on which excerpts were written from the chapter in Vimalakirti Sutra where a sex change and a debate on gender equality take place between a monk and a goddess. This is the first time in recorded history in Asia where women’s rights is emphasized in a religious text and in a radical way.