A quick oil sketch of Dandan, a local Muslim teenager girl from Altay , who won the first price, from national wide speech competition hosted by Shanghai TV Station two years ago.. Our family friendship with 4 generations of her family stretched as far back as the moment I was born. Her great grandmother, a kind hearted local Muslim woman, a total stranger at the time to us, took me home to nurse me a few weeks after I was born, with the fresh milk from her two cows during the notorious famine that had swept across China at the time. Abridging the huge cultural and ethnical difference is our mutual love and respect that have never faded away across time and space. I did this quick oil sketch of Dandan who could only have an hour to spare before heading back to the boarding school where waiting for her is the daily crushing load of school work and harsh and punishing disciplines facing most high school students across China.
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