 Qiu Zhu's most famous subject is Guanyin, the bodhisattva of compassion especially appealing to women, and her paintings of the goddess have been described as "mysteriously transcendent".The 24 portraits of Guanyin are presented in an album alternating them with short text passages.They are in gold ink on black paper, and were inspired by an album of woodblock prints by Ding Yunpeng (1547–1628) that had been based on a hand scroll by Li Gonglin.