Wang Qing Song’s first encounter with America’s Statue of Liberty gripped his imagination which he likened to “witnessing a goddess born from the water’’. Over a decade later, that vivid image spurred his creation of an 8×6 metre clay sculpture weighing close to 20,000 kilograms. Depicting Lady Liberty donning a Mao suit, it represents a China torn between two opposing ideals: Chairman Mao Zedong’s doctrine against the principles of Western democracy. The scaffolding in a derelict construction site suggests the abandonment of a lofty ambition far too challenging to actualise. Wang ponders, “Is China’s meteoric rise overshadowing the true needs and desires of her people, leaving in its trail broken dreams and promises?”