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