Height: 1” - Length: 5" - Width: 7"
The fan is a classic shape of a full life, with birth at the bottom and the ribs spreading. Otters are symbolic of creativity, fluidity and transitions. Linked to water, otters are associated with healing. The bubbled background is created with soap mixed with glaze, then applied. Embossed 'Fu' seal of good fortune in lucky red.
She painted her first bamboo brushstrokes as a child at a brush painter's studio in California. Tracie Griffith Tso specializes in traditional spontaneous flower-bird painting.