Sporadic pics

Sporadic drawings with the paper app for iPad.

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Two men in a traditional house in Seoul discuss philosophy (the 4 Mengzian sprouts and the seven emotions) while drinking tea in Bukchon Hanok Village, 

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Two wanderers witnessing a comet 

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The Empress of the Blazing-world on horseback

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Here are illustrations I made for one of the earliest SF novels written, Margaret Cavendish' (1666) The Blazing-world. It imagines a lady who was abducted by a merchant, and taken on his ship. The ship crosses over to another universe at the North Pole and the Lady finds herself in the Blazing-world as the only survivor of the ship. This is a strange world, populated by bear-men, fish-men, fox-men and other remarkable creatures. The Lady becomes Empress of that world and discusses in detail all sorts of topics including new inventions at the time, such as telescopes and microscopes, as well as the best way of government. Eventually, the story takes a strange turn as the author writes herself into the story! The Empress wants to write her own Cabalah (mystical text based on Jewish writings) and she chooses the author, Margaret Cavendish, as her scribe, thinking that male intellectuals of the time such as Descartes and Hobbes would think it beneath them to write for her. Then, Cavendish and the Empress become platonic lovers. The Duke (Cavendish' husband eventually joins them in this platonic polyamory, and eventually the group return to England which is being invaded by a foreign nation.

I intend to make more drawings to illustrate this story 

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This is the first of a series of illustrations I am going to do for Margaret Cavendish’ early SF novel The Blazing-World (1666). This illustrates the start of the story, as follows “A Merchant travelling into a foreign Country, fell extreamly in Love with a young Lady; but being a stranger in that Nation, and beneath her, both in Birth and Wealth, he could have but little hopes of obtaining his desire; however his Love growing more and more vehement upon him, even to the slighting of all difficulties, he resolved at last to Steal her away; which he had the better opportunity to do, because her Father’s house was not far from the Sea, and she often using to gather shells upon the shore accompanied not with above two to three of her servants it encouraged him the more to execute his design.”

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Mother Whale's Funeral

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This is how I imagine Ged and Lookfar, for #Earthsea (A wizard of Earthsea), Lookfar is based on Polynesian outrigger canoes and Mediterranean ships. 

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This is the cover art for Philosophy Through Science Fiction Stories, a book co-edited by Helen De Cruz, Johan De Smedt, and Eric Schwitzgebel, Bloomsbury 2021. URL here https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/philosophy-through-science-fiction-stories-9781350081239/

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Social distancing, day 12. #madewithpaper 

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Christmas bear

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Reading boy

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Port Meadow in June

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Zhuangzi, enjoyment in untroubled ease

Huizi, Zhuangzi's friend, is advised not to fret over the ailanthus tree that is too crooked for carpentry tools such as the compass and the square, but just to idly rest in its shade.

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#sketches #portmeadow

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#madewithpaper #Paper53 #autumn

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#madewithpaper / fiftythree.com 4th of July