Chinese artist goes underwater for art
Chinese artist Mu Yu Ming took his art underwater in Queenstown today, painting underwater while swimming in the cool Lake Wakatipu in Queenstown.
The multi-media artist, who is in New Zealand to work on a project exploring human identity and the human family, took a canvas with images from Arrowtown's Chinese settlement, Dunedin's Sew Hoy building and the new Chinese gardens under water to alter the artwork.
"I wanted to take the canvas on a journey, similar to the first Chinese that came to Otago. We went from Dunedin, to Lawrence, Alexandra, Cromwell, Arrowtown and then Queenstown.
"I'd heard that a Chinese association in Dunedin [was] shipping the bones of deceased miners back to China, but the last boat with 500 coffins sank off the Northland coast. My painting has gone on a similar journey into the water."