![From the artist: The healthy lifestyle that the middle class and upper-class pursuing once a while is to eat organic food. It was not only popular in the white house. The idea of raising the vegetable and fruit goes along to the animal.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Yaxin_Tu_The-Organic-Goose_2021-Yaxin-Tu-601x600.jpg)
Yaxin Tu, The Organic Goose, 2021. Oil on canvas. 15.74 inch diameter.
I try to express the links between my personal social experiences through color, composition, and theme. The goose–a subject in this series–becomes a symbol of culture, consumerism, morality, and social order.
![From the artist: I saw the moment when the geese being taken the feather by the machines on the assembly line. Each goose became the target of those insensible computers like the hunter dog.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Yaxin_Tu_Prey_2021-Yaxin-Tu-801x600.jpg)
Yaxin Tu, Capturing, 2021. Oil on canvas. 24 x 35 inches.
![The goose web is one of the most popular dishes in China. It is stir-frying by the chef.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Yaxin_Tu_Struggling_2021-Yaxin-Tu-396x800.jpg)
Yaxin Tu, Struggling, 2021.
Oil on canvas. 11 x 23 inches.
![From the artist: I always think about myself as a human being who is the spectator of the world. Did animals, like the goose, have the same kind of action behavior to observe humankind.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Yaxin_Tu_Spectator_2021-Yaxin-Tu-441x600.jpg)
Yaxin Tu, Spectator, 2021.
Oil on canvas. 35 x 24 inches.
![From the artist: In the South region of China, rural people air-dried the geese outside in the open space during winter. They stored the air-dried geese in the cool place and able to hold them for a year.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Yaxin_Tu_The-Hanging-Geese_2021-Yaxin-Tu-967x800.jpg)
Yaxin Tu, The Hanging Geese, 2021. Oil on canvas. 17 x 23 inches.
![From the artist: It is a combination of landscape paintings that contains the elements of mountain, river, rock, and cloud with the geese. The geese are integrating with the landscape barely discernible.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Yaxin_Tu_Formed-as-the-Landscape_2021-Yaxin-Tu-900x456.jpg)
Yaxin Tu, Formed as the Landscape, 2021. Oil on canvas. 11 x 23 inches.
![The moment of processing the geese and the upside-down way of hanging the geese reminds me of the willow. The dead geese arranged on a production line just like the low-hanging branches of the tree.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Yaxin_Tu_The-Geese-Tree_2021-Yaxin-Tu-900x439.jpg)
Yaxin Tu, The Geese Tree, 2021. Oil on canvas. 20 x 39 inches.
![From the artist: It is a moment that trying to capture the moment of dragging the progress bar in a video. The downside is blurry, and the main scene narrative is relevant in focus.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Yaxin_Tu_Implantation_2020-Yaxin-Tu-600x600.jpg)
Yaxin Tu, Implantation, 2020. Oil on canvas. 11.9 x 11.9 inches.