Color & Euphoria: 365 Days of Scribbling Volume 2. July 1st - December 31st, 2018
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Questioning Color Choices
For a visual designer and artist, color is one of the important tools you use to express your creation. So much so that you find yourself asking these same-patterned questions when creating something: “What colors do I use and why do I use it? If I use this and that color, what are the visual consequences that come in effect from the juxtaposition?” It’s these types of questions I find myself perpetually asking that lead me to reflect on, “What can I do to better expand my color vocabulary, and utilize a more diverse range of colors?” In attempts to challenge this growth, I created a year-long independent art project where I scribbled colorful drawings each day.
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A Euphoric Project
The purpose of this year-long project was to avoid habitually-selected colors and interact with foreign colors, while also disciplining myself to create something daily. “No rules: just do it and have fun,” was the project’s motto. And for 365 days, I created bundles of colorful pieces detailed with layers of colored linear patterns inspired by observations and experimentation. Literary and visual references such as these assisted in my project: Josef Albers’ book Interaction of Color, Sanzo Wada’s Haishoku Soukan, and Books of Colors: Matching Colors, Combining Colors, Color Designing, Color Decorating by Design Research from Japan. Other daily observations in nature, the fine arts, graphic design, and cultural or mundane objects has inspired and taught me well. Though I mentioned discipline, this year-long project felt free of labor, as each scribble seemed to express an innate desire to create something. These moments of starting a new piece daily—and finishing it—became a realm of euphoria and inspiration.
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This is a Reference Book
In concluding my year-long project, I realized the utility and function the drawings have for visual referencing. This two volume book, made for myself and others to reference, is an accumulation of those 365 pieces. I hope to break repetitive color-choosing habits, and inspire new color combinations out of the infinite amount that are possible. Just as each scribble piece is a rough-draft form of art making, free from laborsome crafting, the book also emulates the pieces’ rawness. No vigorous explanations to the proportion of colors used, nor the data of each colors’ names or codes, simply a visual narrative that translates a story through the combinations of various colors.
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Day Zero
Let the imagery convey its tonality, and let your God-given brain and passions become the tools of universe-making creativity.
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July 1st, 2018
Embrace
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July 2nd, 2018
Showering Lights
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July 3rd, 2018
Fellowship of the Brethren
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July 4th, 2018
Hopeful Souls in a Dry Place
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July 5th, 2018
The Trails in the Woods
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July 6th, 2018
Graduation of a Sailor
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July 7th, 2018
The Needles in the Hay
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July 8th, 2018
Bloom
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July 9th, 2018
Goods in a Bag
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July 10th, 2018
Musky Mirage
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July 11th, 2018
Bioluminescent
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July 12th, 2018
White Sun
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July 13th, 2018
Princess Starfish
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July 14th, 2018
Thorns and Thistles
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July 15th, 2018
Boggled Mind
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July 16th, 2018
Spectral Shifting
33
July 17th, 2018
Capsuled
35
July 18th, 2018
Gathering Frequencies
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July 19th, 2018
False Staircase
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July 20th, 2018
Convivial
38
July 21st, 2018
Pendulum
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July 22nd, 2018
Advent of the Manifesto
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July 23rd, 2018
Muddy Puddles
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July 24th, 2018
Sophistry
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July 25th, 2018
Temporal Residues
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July 26th, 2018
Waves of Dawn
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July 27th, 2018
Sedimentary
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July 28th, 2018
Overridden
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July 29th, 2018
Blind Spots
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July 30th, 2018
The Vain Questions of Anxiety
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July 31st, 2018
Zeal for Its Search for Retribution
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August 1st, 2018
Ascendance into Light Spectrums
January 1st, 2018
Jellyfish Chandelier
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August 2nd, 2018
Gaiety of the Toddler
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August 3rd, 2018
Idyllic
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August 4th, 2018
Rubenist
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August 5th, 2018
Bitter Melon
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August 6th, 2018
Peaking Exaltation
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August 7th, 2018
A Sound Word of Comfort
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August 8th, 2018
Pragmatic
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August 9th, 2018
The Quenching of Wisdom
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August 10th, 2018
Accompanied
61
August 11th, 2018
Camaraderie in Silence
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August 12th, 2018
Intuition
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August 13th, 2018
Caught by the Hedonists Theatre
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August 14th, 2018
Imperturbable
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August 15th, 2018
Pinkish Palette
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August 16th, 2018
Under the Roots of Marine Vegetation
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August 17th, 2018
Dry Grass
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August 18th, 2018
The Attempts of Entanglement
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August 19th, 2018
The Aging Kitsch
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August 20th, 2018
Literature Under the Blanket
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August 21st, 2018
Markings
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August 22nd, 2018
Nonchalant
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August 23rd, 2018
Conduit
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August 24th, 2018
A Strange Morning
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August 25th, 2018
Etruscan
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August 26th, 2018
Sampling of Clay
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August 27th, 2018
Fibers of a Warm Winter Sweater
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August 28th, 2018
On the Balcony
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August 29th, 2018
Construction
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August 30th, 2018
Light-hearted
August 31st, 2018
Laboon the Great Blue Whale
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September 1st, 2018
Antique Store
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September 2nd, 2018
Expulsion of Nonsense
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September 3rd, 2018
Golden Bricks
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September 4th, 2018
Abandoned Nesting Place
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September 5th, 2018
Primal Drawings
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September 6th, 2018
The Descendance of Eeriness
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September 7th, 2018
Symphony
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September 8th, 2018
Haven
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September 9th, 2018
The Rainbow Pearl
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September 10th, 2018
Typhoon
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September 11th, 2018
Evergreen
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September 12th, 2018
Drizzling of Spices
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September 13th, 2018
Under the Autumn Leaves
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September 14th, 2018
Walnut
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September 15th, 2018
Deep Sea Shadows
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September 16th, 2018
Augury
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September 17th, 2018
Chrysanthemum
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September 18th, 2018
Hidden Cobalt
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September 19th, 2018
Rectify
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September 20th, 2018
A Gentle Farewell
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September 21st, 2018
Boisterous Loner
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September 22nd, 2018
Regal Tradition
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September 23rd, 2018
Brick
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September 24th, 2018
Dandelion
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September 25th, 2018
Nugget of Crispy Chicken
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September 26th, 2018
The Hairs on the Carpet
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September 27th, 2018
Nonplussed
112
September 28th, 2018
Jubilee
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September 29th, 2018 Illuminated
115
September 30th, 2018
Intimacy
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October 1st, 2018
Down the Slide
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October 2nd, 2018
Harbinger
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October 3rd, 2018
Shimmering
119
October 4th, 2018
Crickets’ Temple
120
October 5th, 2018
Intonation of Voices
121
October 6th, 2018
Deposition
122
October 7th, 2018
Mediator
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October 8th, 2018
Red Loam
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October 9th, 2018
A Zest of Sourness
125
October 10th, 2018
Solemnity
126
October 11th, 2018
Shadows in the Water
127
October 12th, 2018
Stalagmite
128
October 13th, 2018
Dreamy Loftiness
130
October 14th, 2018
Elation
131
October 15th, 2018
Subtle Gestures
132
October 16th, 2018
Soft Fuzz
133
October 17th, 2018
Opaque Portrait
134
October 18th, 2018
Lapis Lazuli
135
October 19th, 2018
Melting Butter
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October 20th, 2018
Harmony
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October 21st, 2018
Callous
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October 22nd, 2018
Rapid Sewing
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October 23rd, 2018
Knell and Procession
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October 24th, 2018
A Bite of Mango
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October 25th, 2018
Abate
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October 26th, 2018
Warm Cloak
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October 27th, 2018
Scattering
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October 28th, 2018
A Little Moss
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October 29th, 2018
Red Marble
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October 30th, 2018
Old Cilantro
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October 31st, 2018
Sunset Planets
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November 1st, 2018
Topped with Reds
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November 2nd, 2018
Edge of Trees
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November 3rd, 2018
Regeneration of Skin
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November 4th, 2018
The Warmth in the Roots
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November 5th, 2018
City Highway
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November 6th, 2018
A Slight Luster
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November 7th, 2018
Layers
157
November 8th, 2018
Mutation
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November 9th, 2018
Burgeon
159
November 10th, 2018
The Hope from Repetition
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November 11th, 2018
Dilation
161
November 12th, 2018
Infinitesimal
162
November 13th, 2018
The Council of Apes
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November 14th, 2018
Some Mythology
November 15th, 2018
Malleable
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November 16th, 2018
Fossilized
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November 17th, 2018
Lone Figure on the Train
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November 18th, 2018
Archetypes
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November 19th, 2018
Ascension
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November 20th, 2018
Greetings
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November 21st, 2018
Divided
172
November 22nd, 2018
An Uprising
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November 23rd, 2018
Strands
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November 24th, 2018
Prehistoric
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November 25th, 2018
The Ends of Antagony
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November 26th, 2018
Unpolished, but To Be
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November 27th, 2018
Midnight Story
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November 28th, 2018
Masonry
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November 29th, 2018
Visage
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November 30th, 2018
Variables
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December 1st, 2018
Propelled
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December 2nd, 2018
Turbulence
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December 3rd, 2018
Chromatic
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December 4th, 2018
Fall-ish Morning
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December 5th, 2018
Black Puma
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December 6th, 2018
Sanctification
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December 7th, 2018
Residues from a Sweet Dream
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December 8th, 2018
Arboretum
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December 9th, 2018
Beloved
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December 10th, 2018
Fresco
193
December 11th, 2018
Rainbow Trout
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December 12th, 2018
Consummation
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December 13th, 2018
Principalities
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December 14th, 2018
Polluted Snow
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December 15th, 2018
Glistening Showers
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December 16th, 2018
Ochre
199
December 17th, 2018
Innate
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December 18th, 2018
Captivation of the Seas and Skies
201
December 19th, 2018
Gleeful
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December 20th, 2018
Omen of Delights
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December 21st, 2018
Credulence
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December 22nd, 2018
Viscosity
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December 23rd, 2018
Grand Impartation
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December 24th, 2018
Shalom
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December 25th, 2018
A Letter of Covenance
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December 26th, 2018
Festive Greens
210
December 27th, 2018
The Crackling of Grapes
211
December 28th, 2018
Formation Anew and Its Presence
212
December 29th, 2018
Appreciation
December 30th, 2018
Glacial Auroras
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December 31st, 2018
The Soothing Melody
End of Volume 2.
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Photography, Drawings, Author:
Michael Chou