Chinese artist Mu Yu Ming took his art underwater in
Queenstown today, painting underwater while swimming in the
cool Lake Wakatipu in Queenstown.
The multi-media artist, who is in New Zealand to work on a
project exploring human identity and the human family, took a
canvas with images from Arrowtown's Chinese settlement,
Dunedin's Sew Hoy building and the new Chinese gardens under
water to alter the artwork.
"I wanted to take the canvas on a journey, similar to the
first Chinese that came to Otago. We went from Dunedin, to
Lawrence, Alexandra, Cromwell, Arrowtown and then Queenstown.
"I'd heard that a Chinese association in Dunedin [was]
shipping the bones of deceased miners back to China, but the
last boat with 500 coffins sank off the Northland coast. My
painting has gone on a similar journey into the water."
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