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I teach single mothers arts and crafts skills, connect them with local vendors, and have launched a Taobao store to help them sell their handmade work online. Over the years, I have met many mothers and children living in impoverished circumstances. Even amid hardship, their hope and mutual love deeply move me. This painting honors the profoundness of that love — the unbreakable bond between mother and child.

"A Home to Return" celebrates the resilience of unhoused children and mothers I have encountered over my years of volunteer work. Though they are victims of structural violence, they remain hopeful and proactive in shaping their futures——a quality I deeply admire. Many hold the misconception that being unhoused stems from laziness, a misunderstanding that would dissolve if they came to know these remarkable people.

In this painting, women stand as silent offerings, casualties of structural violence within contemporary society. These women and their children often go hungry not out of laziness, but because they live in a system where social subsidies can take weeks, even months, to arrive. We need a society where accessing social welfare is not an arduous ordeal.

Despite technological advances that purportedly bridge divides between us, the distance between people has only grown. Many remain indifferent to the suffering of women and children — hardship born not of idleness, but of systemic societal failures. I hope to be a catalyst for that change.

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