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monkey

Posted on January 21, 2007 @ 12:11 pm by massimo | Filed under: animals,blog,books,china,fashion,fun,illustration,mythology,news,people,ukiyo-e,wordpress

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“Monkey King (or Sunwukong) was born from a stone. He wanted to be like the immortals and be free from death. He was extremely smart and capable, and learned all the magic tricks from a master Taoist. He could transform himself into seventy-two different images such as a tree, a bird, a beast of prey, or a bug as small as a mosquito so as to sneak into an enemy’s belly to fight him or her inside out. Using clouds as a vehicle, he can travel 180,000 miles a single somersault…”
Monkey is the Chinese classic by ancient scholar Wu Ch’eng-en I am reading these days. It combines the divine and human and is an allegory of own personal journey to spiritual development.

Illustration Friday’s topic is: super hero

phoenix

Posted on December 31, 2006 @ 11:21 am by massimo | Filed under: animals,blog,china,fashion,illustration,mythology,news,ukiyo-e,wordpress

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“There is also another sacred bird called the phoenix which I did not myself see except in painting, for in truth he comes to them very rarely, at intervals, as the people of Heliopolis say, of five hundred years; and these say that he comes regularly when his father dies; and if he be like the painting, he is of this size and nature, that is to say, some of his feathers are of gold colour and others red, and in outline and size he is as nearly as possible like an eagle. This bird they say (but I cannot believe the story) contrives as follows: setting forth from Arabia he conveys his father, they say, to the temple of the Sun (Helios) plastered up in myrrh, and buries him in the temple of the Sun; and he conveys him thus: he forms first an egg of myrrh as large as he is able to carry, and then he makes trial of carrying it, and when he has made trial sufficiently, then he hollows out the egg and places his father within it and plasters over with other myrrh that part of the egg where he hollowed it out to put his father in, and when his father is laid in it, it proves (they say) to be of the same weight as it was; and after he has plastered it up, he conveys the whole to Egypt to the temple of the Sun. Thus they say that this bird does.” — Herodotus, The Histories, Book II:73

My illustration is done after the Chinese manner. It precisely refers to a painting from the Sung Dynasty depicting a goddess riding the Feng-huang bird, the Chinese phoenix, a painting that I bought in Beijing…

Illustration Friday’s topic is: phoenix

carabao

Posted on September 9, 2006 @ 5:08 pm by massimo | Filed under: animals,blog,food,illustration,news,people,philippines,politics,travel,wordpress

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…plowing the field by the carabao, native water buffalo of the Philippines…
In many regions of the Philippines time is measured by the growth of the rice fields. Each new planting of the rice field marks the passing of calendric time. Filipinos also decide when to plant their crops according to the monsoon rains that occur. Some aspects of religion are also timed according to the cycle of rice. Some people believed that the rice was a manifestation of the gods. There are also rice gods in many upland peoples’ cultures that are often represented as wooden images. In certain areas they decide to harvest the rice whenever the elders decide that it is needed. These decisions are made according to observations of the growing rice and the sun.
Such rituals on rice-growing can be found everywhere in South East Asia: local cultures and traditions are deeply linked with rice. Nevertheless, in 1998 an American company, Ricetec Inc., has obtained a patent in the US for a rice line that mimics the properties of traditional Basmati rice, a product of India and Pakistan. After a legal challenge, the patents were restricted so that they do not cover the pre-existing traditional varieties…

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