eileen chengyin chowさんのイラストまとめ

[Paul Gaugin, Portrait of Meijer de Haan, 1889, detail]

[Pablo Picasso, Women with Pears, 1909, (detail and full painting)]

One of the most significant emendations/elaborations by the Qing court painters version for Qianlong is adding a glimpse of palace life -- and the ladies residing within - behind the wall to the far left of the scroll #qingming #清明上河圖

Yuri Shimojo 下條ユリ, "Memento Mori" メメント・モリ

Hana 花 Vine 蔦
Algae 藻 Universal Stain しみの宇宙

"They dreamed of pursuing her. As they twisted and turned, each of them lost her. After the dream they set out in search of that city; they never found it, but they found one another."
-Italo Calvino, "Cities and Desire"

[Leon Spilliaert, Vertigo, (1908) ht @holdengraber]

Now the book! "Soggy Sam Goes Through The Water Cycle"
ofc the villain is Drippy Don.
Love how part of assignment was to write their own blurbs ("An amazing book that is also educational - Rojas does the impossible" - NYT) @parul_sehgal might be amused.
https://t.co/SiHvW3vyd1

And as 愛玲愛玲年 election-year madness is keeping me awake, I thought I'd share the charming Google Doodle for September 30th – the 100th birthday of Eileen Chang!

https://t.co/zWRokFBHQ7

"You ready?"

January 20, 2009
John Lewis remembering this moment with @BarackObama
From @MARCHTrilogy, Book 2 https://t.co/eE5aIZBlNA

Legend has it that fishing boats set out looking for the much-beloved Qu Yuan. When he could not be found, food was thrown into the river to prevent fish from consuming his corpse.
Hence Duanwu is also known as the #DragonBoatFestival & sticky rice packets (zongzi) are eaten. 2/

Remembering Maurice Sendak, #botd in 1928. He passed away on May 8, 2012, the day before Obama expressed public support for gay marriage.
My Brother’s Book was published posthumously, a universal “love letter to those who have gone before.”

[unpublished cover by Ella German]