Denis Achacoso

KUEI MEI
1994, Oil on canvas
70" X 48" / 179 X 122 cms
Collection of the artist

KUEI MEI or The Marrying Maiden
is the fifty-fourth hexagram of the
I Ching, the Book of Changes.

The image is that of a young woman
arriving at the home of her master,
not as a wife but as a concubine,
as was traditional in feudal Chinese society.

 

In Memoriam: Denis Achacoso

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