Rooster

Acrylic on gourd, 34 cm tall, 150 USD

Astrologically speaking, I am a Rooster. I spent my childhood in the Silk Road village of Zharkent in Kazakhstan, where my grandfathers and great-grandfathers lived. Like them, most Zharkent residents came from the Silk Road oasis city of Kashgar. They built their homes to resemble those of their ancestral homeland, like the ones painted on the Rooster.