To My Father

In August 2022, my father passed away. My father is a painter, and this work is a tribute to a work my father created 40 years ago, in 1983, which is a painting for my mother. In the background, my mother's old house is about to be demolished, and in the distance, there are new high-rise buildings. The background in this work is the old alley where my grandfather's old house is located, which has been demolished in early 2020. It is the last shanty town in the center of Shanghai to be demolished on a large scale. It was my childhood home and my father's most difficult youth home there. This is a painting that is bound to have regrets, and I feel that I have not been able to express 100 percent of my feelings. My father's greatest wish was to see me start a family, and today, I am just over a month away from getting married. May Father have a spirit in heaven to bless us.