Tangerines and Tapestry is a “good luck” painting symbolized by the tangerines, given out on Chinese New Year, the red flower for money and luck, and the Chinese prayer stick and it’s poem wishing good luck to the family of the house. This painting has several contrasting textures. The bumpy tangerine surfaces, the waxy flower, and the tapestry of a rough woolen weave. The flower is a Waratah Protea from New South Wales, Australia.