Liu's new lithographs, The Last Dynasty: Countess (left) and The Last Dynasty: Empress (right), continue the exploration of the history of her homeland through found anonymous photographs. Using black and white images from the Qing Dynasty, Liu has re-drawn the portraits with painterly washes and colors.

She describes her approach to the found images "...between dissolving and preserving is the rich middle-ground where the meaning of an image is found... My prints are metaphors for memory and history...." These new prints embrace the history of a missing past and the sorrow of beauty lost.

The ten color lithographs have been printed in editions of 30, plus proofs, on white Rives BFK, 50 x 21 inches. They are each $3,000.

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