Zhai Yongming's Poetic Escape: She Swims to the Distant Mountains

Zhai Yongming is one of the most outstanding contemporary female poets in China. The "White Night" bar she opened in Chengdu has become a famous literary salon. Her life is a constant challenge, and she excels in every field. She rediscovered herself through painting, just like Wang Wei's "previous life should be a painter." Painting is her poetic escape, a wilderness she discovered, using emptiness as a metaphor for emptiness. Zhai Yongming places admired female writers in dreamlike scenes, such as Atwood, Susan Sontag, Georgia O'Keeffe, Akhmatova, Frida, and others. Women walking towards the strange are spiritual avatars and self-portraits.