Return to the Void

Artist: Qi Yang

Original title: 《归墟》

Material: Xuan paper

Size: 200cm*140cm

Year：2025

This surrealist work evokes the Earth Mother as a totemic figure. The female form is reimagined through nature: breasts become spiral leaves, a butterfly brooch at the chest cradles the seed of life, and a feathered headdress blooms like a flower. Fish, blossoms, and painted pottery encircle her, shaping a hidden realm of cyclical symbiosis. Interwoven warm and cool tones and a vortex-like composition allude to the eternal cycle of birth and decay within nature.