Ming Wah did not know she grew up in a former concentration camp. For her, her “New Village” was a happy place where she was free to wander around and adored by the adults. Only much later did she realize the history of her environment and she gradually finds out about her people’s past. This, increasingly, becomes her identity.

In the painting, Ming Wah’s relaxes as if after a spa treatment and her hair being washed. Her hair becomes a waterfall, a waterfall ridiculously barricaded by barbed-wire fences. How can something so natural as a waterfall be barricaded?