The painting is based on a photograph which depicts a pile of exhausted people (workers) sitting and sleeping on the ground outside a train station in China prior to the Chinese New Year, desperately wanting to get home in countryside before the New Year eve. The group of people merge in cold blue tones, against subtle landscape inspired by traditional Chinese painting in warm tones surrounding them, hinting the incompatibility of themselves and the environment.
The painting is based on a photograph which depicts a pile of exhausted people (workers) sitting and sleeping on the ground outside a train station in China prior to the Chinese New Year, desperately wanting to get home in countryside before the New Year eve. The group of people merge in cold blue tones, against subtle landscape inspired by traditional Chinese painting in warm tones surrounding them, hinting the incompatibility of themselves and the environment.