ON THE HEIGHT
登 高
My comic created for a Chinese Tang dynasty poet Du Fu's masterpiece, the best contemporary and ancient heptameter poem, “ON THE HEIGHT”.
Wind blusters high in the sky and monkeys wail;
Clear the islet with white sand where birds are wheeling;
Everywhere the leaves fall rustling from the trees,
While on for ever rolls the turbulent Yangtze.
All around is autumnal gloom and I,long from home,
A prey all my life to ill heath,climb the terrace alone;
Hating the hardships which have frosted my hair,
Sad that illness has made me give up the solace of wine.







Ink on comic paper and finalized with
Adobe Photoshop
7 x 11 inches, 17. 78 x 27. 94 cm
2023