Artist: Cao Yong
Title: Mediterranean Sunrise
Image Size, Medium and Edition Size: Image Size: 15" x 35" Iris Giclee on Canvas Limited Edition of 950 Signed and Numbered plus 200 (Artist Proof Sold Out) Image Size: 18" x 42" Iris Giclee on Canvas Limited Edition of 750 Signed and Numbered plus 150 Artist Proof (AP SOLD OUT) Image Size: 24" x 56" Roland Giclee on Canvas Limited Edition of 500 Signed and Numbered plus 100 Artist Proof (AP SOLD OUT)
Framing and Edition Options: Archival Print on Canvas HE (Hand Embelleshed) Limited Edition printed on Archival Material for preservation. Signed and Numbered by the artist. Price Shown Does Not include Frame (Select Frame Options Below) All Editions are H/E "Hand Embellished". Artist Proofs are Embellished Personally by Cao Young, Availability is very limited. (Select AP Option Below)
Image Sizes: 15" x 35" and 18 x 42 and 24" x 56"
About the Art: One extremely cold winter night when I was trekking through the Tibetan plateau, I failed to find the shelter of a nomad’s tent where I might borrow a small corner to keep myself warm. The only protection against the bitter cold and snow was my meager, torn, sleeping bag. At first, my body heat melted the ice under the bag but then it froze hard against the ground. All night long I kept rubbing my body to keep from freezing to death, hoping and praying that I would just survive through the night. I fought to stay awake through the dark, bitter cold and never-ending night.

I thought of memories that were warm... the dirty, smelly sheep skin a Tibetan man once wrapped me in, the fire bucket surrounded by my family members, and especially the loving warmth of my mother’s embrace. Through the long agonizing hours, I anxiously waited and prayed and watched with hope for even the tiniest golden ray of sunlight to rise.

Ever so faintly, the first beautiful, glorious rays of sunlight appeared on the horizon. Gradually, as the sun rose in the sky, the warmth of the sun’s energizing life flowed throughout my body as I became alive; I felt like I was reborn! At that moment, I knew that I had beaten death just one more time.