The Rice Eaters

Digital, 5x8"

Cover art for the book edition of Yide Cai’s play “The Rice Eaters”, published in 2025 by 1319 Press. “Fan Gao, his family and friends are Chinese workers trapped in a factory called Da Feng village; their job is to copy Van Gogh; their employers are from Germany and Hong Kong; their products are sold all over the world; they paint Starry Night in half an hour but get paid very little. They want to escape; they want to paint their own works; they want to be free.”