Lucy Zhang

Get Your Money Back!, 2024
Memories on Ginkgoes, 2023-2024
Untitled (rock sculpture), 2023
Untitled (China), 2022
奶奶山, 2022
Translations, 2021-2022
Untitled (Kathy), 2021
Untitled (Patterned sheets projected over familiar mountains, death of an eco-cultural landscape), 2021
Moving Water, 2021
Untitled Papercut (剪纸), 2021
Untitled (wire sculpture), 2020

Confession (Letter to My Mother) - Lucy Zhang <- Back

2023

The Stars in the Well (Grandma & the World)

I think we all deserve to eat persimmons in the summertime
and I think art can save the world

I want Baba to tell me stories forever
I hope the stars stay holding up the sky

Maybe I can catch one
Maybe it can fit in the pouch Grandma sewed for me
Maybe she could sew all the stars together
Maybe she’s the one holding up the sky

We climb atop our houses
to hear each other clearer
The children are our messengers

They tell me the well draws a picture
of Grandma at night
And that she looks just like the Moon

Aren’t we lovely
when we say art can save the world?
Isn’t the Moon so beautiful?

I hope the river writes my name
and carries it to the well
I hope to draw a picture of it
on the other side of the Moon