Zhang Yanzi’s artworks “Sanctuary” and “Scar” are inspired by a museum collection of a delivery bed that was used during labor years ago. Using the delivery bed as a prototype, Zhang expresses her respect and admiration for woman’s endurance of pain during childbirth through these artworks. A variety of herbal plants were depicted on each piece of analgesic plaster, fully wrapped around to form the artwork “Sanctuary”. The latest creation differs from the previous one as the images of Buddha are replaced by the drawings of medicinal plants. The artist outlines the medicinal plants skillfully using ink and wash on old-fashioned brown analgesic patches; the presented visual representation of medicinal plants is optically refreshing. The obvious symbolic meanings, together with the holes on the patches, construct a unique sense, easing the strong sentiment aroused by the delivery bed and giving out a certain intimate emotion of psychological comfort.

同一系列的《痕》，章燕紫使用了一卷卷沾滿朱砂的醫用紗布繃帶，反覆纏繞在如同人形的產床上，觀者無不痛徹心扉。在這裡，藝術家撕破了脈脈
溫情的表象，以一種直觀的姿態宣示著破碎的無力感。而細看才會發現，紗布的朱砂長卷中竟然描繪的是一片片空靈的意象山水，這種既哀婉又凌厲
的詩意，不禁讓人思考，生命的過程，不就是美好和悲傷交織在一起嗎？