Jewel Yang, Genesis VanishingGallery / 10 images
Jewel Yang experienced a sacred moment while painting a friend’s pregnant stomach. Unlike her usual work, doing make-up for Yueqi Qi and Oscar Ouyang runway shows or Dazed cover shoots, Yang felt the tension: “Her belly was hard, resistant and elastic, making it very easy to paint,” the 28-year-old make-up artist and Dazed 100 alumni says. “I tried to be very careful with my brush strokes.” A shy, sleeping angel was etched onto the smoothly domed belly, divine iconography unfurling with new life on a human body.
Religious symbols, and the weight that they carry, had been tugging at Yang’s interest for a while. “I once had someone unfollow me because I wore a skirt with...
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