The work I’m reviewing is a large-scale sculpture carved by a Chinese artist Lu Zhengyuan.  This website shows you a picture of this sculpture.  In this picture, you can see 7 people. An old aged woman lying in a simple and crude bed which seems like the one in the hospital.
There are two men who standing on the right side of this woman looks like her sons. Then there is an old man squating in front of the bed and holding half a section of cigarette, maybe he is her husband. Except those four, on the left side,there are three people all standing there.  A women and two men.   Besides of them, It still have a bedside cupboard, a pair of slippers and a cuspidor in this picture. They all looks old-fashioned.

If you concentrate to their expression, you will discover they all looks unhappy even distressed. I think maybe that old woman is a patient who got a serious disease, her family want heal her illness but maybe they already got into a big amount debt and unable to pay for the hospital any more.

Actually, in China, it’s not a infrequent situation especially in the countryside. But nobody can change it shortly.
I think it’s because of the goverment. They should pay more attention to the civilians, the lower layer people. Help them and take care of them.
Anyway, I like this picture(sculpture). It’s true , lively and can stimulate people’s deep thought.

View the art work here >>