In Chinese culture, the Lotus symbolizes perfection, and ultimate purity of the heart and mind, because it rises untainted and beautiful from the mud. The lotus pond is like the community where we live: It records the human life cycle. 

I image myself as a lotus pod, and use white porcelain to represent pregnancy moments. My sculpture uses traditional elements to explore very personal, yet universal, experiences of motherhood.

Lotus.Baby is made of white porcelain; flawless, clean and beautiful, like the lotus ponds after the rain. I named it “Lotus.Baby” because lotus seeds and baby have the same pronunciation in Chinese. I sculpted many sleeping porcelain babies to replace the lotus seeds in the pod to represent pregnancy moments.

Other aspects of my work include the use of wax and rice paper to make lots of empty lotus pods that reference my experience with postnatal depression. The use of pigment and rice paper is to represent the muscle state around the cesarean incision.