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Explodingly Yours, Chen Chen

from a reprint of the 1976 picture book Takeru by Masakane Yonekura

NAMIKI Hajime（並木一 Japanese, b.1947）

Tree Scene 105   2001  woodblock print  38×31cm   via

Oklahoma Gray,

Frozen River

2023

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Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5: 1947-1955

[Text ID: I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me — the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.]

The church, the steeple, without any people.