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Week 141

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This is week 141, folks!

I am looking for authors or new stories to read. If you know an author or story that I’m not reading, please let me know!

Readers-please make sure you show these authors some love! If you’d like to check out my previous posts, follow #rachel’s fanfic lists or search the tag on my blog. Happy reading!

Endgame - redheadedflame

Outside Expectations - @katnissdoesnotfollowback

Peace - merciki aka @thegirlfromoverthepond

Dispatches from District 12 - xerxia aka @xerxia31

Katniss Everdeen is Not a Stalker - AULOVE aka @mega-aulover

HALF-SOMETHING - BellaGracie

On Borrowed Time - panskiss123

Dominion - atetheredmind aka @muttpeeta

A Bump On The Head - @mtk4fun

Fifty Year's Worth - juststella aka @justajjfan

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Lunar Dial (月晷) dir. Gao Yuan (高源). Animated short film. 2016.

Gao Yuan is a queer Chinese artist born in Kunming, China and currently based in New York and Beijing. Working largely in animation and painting, her work is invested in homogeneity and repetition across images - and how temporality relates to those two concepts. Gao’s work is rich in symbolism, with a particular interest in the surreal as a means of depicting the fluidity of consciousness.

Lunar Dial is a hand-drawn animation of a montage of paintings and drawing, realised over the course of six years by Gao. A cyclical piece, the work draws on questions of time and the ways in which the “present” continually revisits both past and future through the repeating images of flowing water, lighting and artefacts of knowledge. Lunar Dial has been selected in major film festivals across the world, and was nominated for the Tiger Awards for Short Films in 2017 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, as well as receiving a Special Mention of the Jury at the 2016 CutOut Fest International Animation and Digital ARt Festival.

You can watch the trailer for Lunar Dial here.

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眾鳥高飛盡，孤雲獨去閒。 相看兩不厭，唯獨敬亭山。 The flocks of birds have flown high and away, A solitary cloud goes off calmly alone. We look at each other and never get bored— Just me and Ching-t’ing Mountain.

Sitting Alone by Ching-t’ing Mountain (獨坐敬亭山) by Li Bai (李白). Tang Dynasty. Translation by Stephen Owen.

Li Bai (701-762) is one of the most well-known poets in Chinese history. His poems are of a romantic style and often include motifs of indulgence, freedom, and wine-drinking. 

Sitting Alone by Ching-t’ing Mountain was written later in Li Bai’s life, long after he had left the Hanlin Academy. He was then sentenced to exile as a result of the An Lushan Rebellion, and as a result of this, the themes of solitude in his poetry become more prominent, as evident in this work through his reflection upon nature and himself. 

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American China. Brian Foo. Porcelain. 

Brian Foo is an artist and computer scientist, currently working as a data visualization artist at the American Museum of Natural History. Foo was inspired to create this series by his family history, immigrating to the U.S. from China in the early 1900s. To best preserve this history, Foo decided the to create something food related, as food is an integral part of Chinese culture. 

The American China collection consists of 3D printed porcelain works. The first work in the collection is a traditional soup spoon whose outer edge represents a timeline of Chinese immigration to the United States from 1882 to 2015. The geometry was created using Python, and then exported into a printable model using Blender. Other works include a plate showing the San Andreas fault line as it caused to 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, a cup engraved with a poem originally found on the walls of the Angel Island immigration station, and a teapot shaped like a traditional iron typically used in Chinese American laundries. 

Wing On Wo & Co. is the oldest continually run family business in New York’s Chinatown. It is also home to The W.O.W. Project, a community initiative to preserve Chinatown’s creative side through art and culture. Sine Theta did a discussion with W.O.W. in April 2019 as a part of the project to promote Chinese culture initiatives, and Wing On Wo & Co. carries our print magazine in their store. For the upcoming W.O.W. three year anniversary celebration on June 14, Foo will be holding a silent auction for his pieces. 

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Eating #4 by Zhang Enli ( 張恩利). Oil on canvas. 2000.

Eating #4 was painted in 2000, also the year marking the climax of Zhang’s early Portrait series. Demonstrating Zhang’s mastery in portraying psychological nuances, this piece was one of the greatest works from his Portrait series. The painting shows people indulging in a festival feast in dark blue and crimson. The viewer is at a distance from the scene, allowing them to observe the people in their raw, natural state. This work presents an overlooking perspective of a scene from a festival feast, creating a distance between the figures and the viewer and allowing the latter to not only merely observe the act of eating as a pastime, but also the complicated human nature and social behaviour at the table. 

Zhang Enli was born in 1965 in Jilin Province, China and is a Chinese artist based in Shanghai. In 1989 he graduated from the Arts & Design Institute of Wuxi Technical University. His oil paintings, often in series, depict everyday objects and contexts familiar to him, but from unusual perspectives or focused on insignificant details, often inviting universal interpretation. He currently teaches at the Arts and Design Institute of Donghua University.

Art critic Li Xu once compared Zhang’s early works with The Scream by Edvard Munch and stated, “Zhang Enli’s works might rather be described as a long and flowing chant in the darkness, a chant for all the anonymous people in a moonless and starless night, with quiet all around and darkness hanging low.”

Image courtesy of Phillips

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Teen’s Edge (我還年輕 我還年輕) by Your Woman Sleep With Others (老王樂隊). 2017.

Your Woman Sleep With Others is a post-folk indie band from Taipei, Taiwan. The group originally formed in 2015 to participate in campus folk rock (校園民歌) competitions in Taiwan; a style of music arising from university campuses in Taiwan concerned with the idea of a creating a distinct cultural identity for the youth and the concept of “singing one’s own songs” -“唱自己的歌”. Your Woman Sleep With Others is currently comprised of band members Zhang Lizhang 張立長 on vocals, Tong Weishuo 童偉碩 on the electric guitar, Liao Jiemin 廖潔民 on the bass, Fei Huiyuan 馮會元 on the drums and Shao Jiaying 邵佳瑩 on the cello.

Teen’s Edge is found in Your Woman Sleep With Others’ first EP, titled “At Fifteen I Set My Heart On Learning” (吾十有五而志於學). Singing on the meandering passage of time, Teen’s Edge taps into the melancholia of a younger generation of Taiwanese people who feel departed from a sense of meaning in their lives. Part folk-narrative, part rock, Teen’s Edge has since received several accolades in Taiwan and has received over 15 million views on Youtube.

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The Wanted Ones_Sweet Afterlife. Wang Liang Yin (王亮尹). Acrylic on canvas. 2014.

Born in 1979, Wang Liang-Yin is a Taiwanese visual artist currently based in Taipei. She received her MFA from the Graduate School of Fine Arts of the Taipei National University of the Arts. Her works cover the entire spectrum of the rainbow and are based on reality and illusion, memory and imagination, and eternity and transience. Wang’s colourful pieces are of strong sensory stimulants and temporary primal desires, and are created by blurring the boundaries of the spiritual, the imagined and the reality.

Photo courtesy of Lin & Lin Gallery

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