Mid-autumn Festival
Acrylic on canvas
26 x 26 in  

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival is a popular Chinese celebration of abundance and togetherness. Farmers celebrate the end of the summer harvest on this date. Traditionally on this day, family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, eat moon cakes and pomelos together. Brightly lit lanterns are often carried around by children. Other motives of some special customs in different parts of the country such as burning incense, planting trees, lighting lanterns on towers and fire dragon dances are present.

This painting depicts the excitement of the event from the use of bright red color and small swirls of gold on the lanterns and chopsticks. The energy of the yellow background with triangular shapes symbolizes the pagoda roofs giving an overall dynamism of the festivities.