Artist Yiling Changues celebrates women, nature and Polynesian culture A trained illustrator and graphic designer, Polynesian artist Yling Changues works between Paris and her native Tahiti. As a Franco - Sino - Tahitian woman, Yiling Changues explores through her art the myth of the vahine, the island paradise and island life. She offers an authentic, sincere and poetic representation that emancipates itself from a one - sided vision conveyed by colonial history. Influenced by the colours and compositions of Gauguin, by Louise Bourgeois who mixed texts and sketches in her notebooks, or by the narrative force of Frida Kahlo's paintings, Yil ing Changues builds a personal mythology and draws on her memories in order to capture and transmit the singularity of Polynesian roots and culture. It is this ode to nature and the Polynesian woman, the very essence of the collection of fabrics, wallpape rs and carpets, Enchanted Islands, that seduced Pierre Frey's design studio.