Art
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Painting: In Harmony
2006-08-06This painting depicts a young woman doing the fifth exercise of Falun Gong, "Way of Strengthening Divine Powers." The clear water and blue sky reflect her tranquility and give a feeling of her union with heaven while she meditates. The four "Cherubs" play amidst an energy field. -
Drawing: Bamboo
2006-08-04 -
Painting: Inhumane
2006-07-31Prison guards are submerging a man's head into a bucket of human feces. One of the guards covers his own nose because of the odour, whilst a pregnant Falun Gong practitioner is hanging motionless in the background. -
Painting: Like a Stone
2006-07-10This painting is highlighting the abuse and torture that those Falun Gong practitioners been detained in China have to go through on a daily basis. With this torture method, sharp bamboo sticks are jammed underneath the fingernails. -
Painting: Fulfilling Vows
2006-07-01The heavenly beings in this painting represent all races and cultures. There are practitioners of Falun Gong in over 60 countries around the world. Its practitioners represent every ethnic group and every walk of life. Although Falun Gong originated in China, the search for truth and enlightenment is universal. -
Painting: Unwavering Spirit
2006-06-25 -
Photography: Majestic Lotus Flower
2006-06-23 -
Painting: Faith Unchained
2006-06-18Inspired by her own experience of being incarcerated in the Chinese prison, Amy Fan created this painting to express Falun Gong practitioners’ determination to adhere to their belief in Falun Gong’s cultivation principles, Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance, despite being deprived of their freedom and subjected to daily verbal abuse and violence in the forced labour camps and prisons in China. -
Painting: Assimilation
2006-06-15 -
Drawing: Feitian - Heavenly Beauty
2006-06-13 -
Painting: Compassionately Sprinkling the Manna
2006-05-27 -
Painting: Looking up at the Merciful Glow
2006-05-21 -
Painting: Looking up at the Merciful Glow
2006-05-14 -
Painting: Relentless
2006-04-28This is a scene from a Chinese detention center, where prison guards are given directives to "transform" people who practice Falun Gong; that is, force them to renounce their beliefs. When brainwashing classes do not work, practitioners are subjected to relentless beating and torture, sometimes unto death. -
Painting: Force Feeding
2006-04-15They pour in substances such as a mixture of water and cornmeal, concentrated salt solutions, hot chili paste and even human excretory waste. The intention is to inflict pain so as to break the will. Such torture is extremely painful and is the most common cause of death.