Kyosuke Chinai is from Imabari in Ehime, Shikoku. I lived on Shikoku for almost three years in my early to mid twenties. There is precious little information about him on the Net in English. I bought a book of his paintings, and it is still one of those treasured items that I take with me whenever I move around. I am fairly certain that his daughter used to be, or is the model in his paintings. If you can read Japanese, I think there is some information here, though it might be mostly about the opening of an art museum. Even though the fourth painting above seems to be credited to him, it doesn't really seem to be his style, so apologies if I have misappropriated credit.
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Oh gosh, they're beautiful. There is the soft sound of distant synapses snapping, so perhaps you've pointed my browser in this direction before. It took a couple of reminders before I hooked up with Sean Tan too, so many thanks for the aesthetically pleasing prod.
Shaun Tan. He is wonderful, isn't he? Once our work scanner gets fixed I'll scan some from the book. He's hard to find online. I'm always a bit queasy that he uses or has used, she'd be well grown now, his daughter in the pics, they are very sensual, but not necessarily sexual? I wonder if the two can be separated. Tactile, anyway, in that way that children seem to be able to feel everything around them. I'm taking a break from this blog for a while, and have started up a blog for general writing and whimsy here. It's still lizardrinking, but on wordpress. I'll keep this one for the political stuff... but I'll take a break. All the poetry's over there, and Chinai, and Tan! ♥
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