Imperfect Paradise

These illustrations are dedicated to the author Shen Congwen, for the divine part that of me he enlightened.

“Who can use green bamboo as bows and arrows to shoot into the sky and never fall? Like a long arrow, my imagination goes to the clouds and never returns. The long arrow is in the vast void of blue and clear.“ (completed works, 11:295)

Choose any thumbnail to enter the “realm of individualism, eroticism, and religion… the equipment most needed for the climb is imagination, not learning.” (Jeffrey Kinkley)