By Shanghai artist Yao Yuxin in 1979. One of my most precious possessions, the scroll was presented to me as a wedding gift by the owner of an art gallery in 1980 who at that time shipped in many of Yao's works from China, for sale in Singapore. In those days I wrote an occasional newspaper column on Chinese art.
In my childhood, I was sickly, so my grandma, a devout Buddhist, got me adopted by the Bodhisattva, who has since blessed and protected me.
-- Francis Chin
Guanyin Bodhisattva
