Daugher On Sale

Home Created in Scripps College’s Experimental Relief Printing class, this poster confronts a long-standing superstition in China that links women’s fate to the placement of facial lentigo. Such beliefs—seeing moles as signs of misfortune or poverty—reflect how women were historically objectified, traded, and devalued.

In Zixi Yang’s design, two female figures appear behind black vertical lines resembling both barcodes and prison bars, symbols of commodification and confinement. The red moles printed atop these lines expose how identity is reduced to surface marks, while red and blue tones evoke cruelty and melancholy under patriarchal control. The title Daughter on Sale underscores a tragic reality: women once priced and sold by their own families, their worth dictated by superstition and social hierarchy.