Zixi’s poster discusses a regionally specific issue in China that had existed for thousands of years: women were defined and imprisoned by lentigo. Lentigo at different positions has specific meanings in Chinese tradition. For instance, if the lentigo is under the eyes, it means the person with the nevus will bring bad luck to the parent; if the lentigo is on the right side of one’s nose, the person will always be poor. I think this “lentigo theory” is ridiculous since people are born with those marks, and it is a superstition in feudal society. Back then, females’ position was super low, and they were always traded by their parents for money. The faith of girls with those birthmarks is even worse since those birthmarks lead to a reduction in their price. The feeling of not being able to control the placement of your birthmark was as scary as the women of the time not being able to decide their own lives. In other words, women become the commodities being put on shelves in markets, and their values are spent on others and stupid feudal disciplines.
In Zixi's posters, two girls with lentigo on their faces are printed behind the black vertical lines, which refer to the bar code and the jail at the same time. These two meanings, respectively, uncover women's objectification and unfree situation. Zixi intentionally prints those nevus in red and on the top of the bar code since the essence of those women has nothing to do with their birthmarks. However, people outside the bar code, or jail, only see them with a nevus, influencing their "price.”. The reason why I use “Daughter on Sale” as the text is that parents are always the group who sell their children, and those girls’ prices greatly depend on their marks. If they have lentigo that is believed to bring bad luck, women’s parents have to decrease the price. Zixi uses three colors in my posters: red for the text and the nevus, blue for the girls’ faces, and black for the bar code. I think red is the representative color of bloody and cruel, which are the feelings brought by the feudal disciplines to me. Also, blue is a gloomy color with a great comparison to red.