Artist uses nature to ease pain and stress

Kong Ning, a self-taught interdisciplinary artist, enthusiastically advocates love and care for nature in her oil paintings, poems, films and performance art.

She wore a long-tailed wedding gown made of dozens of fabric leaves in a residential compound in Luoyang, Henan province, on July 15.

It was part of her ongoing One Hundred Thousand Leaves project, an initiative to raise people's awareness of environmental issues.