Shan Hai Jing · Classics of Mountains and Seas

Picture Story

Refusal.

She does not like to be refused.

Noon, burning sun.

Earth-red iron gate, boiling-pot soup.

Plastic toy-cart wheels.

Evil 🔥 on the rack.

What is being knocked is not the door —

it is the fire of desire.

A bag.

Dinner.

A book.

A flesh-coloured women's Mao suit.

Stepping

on a potato,

flying against the wind.

Emerald maize thickets.

Bleeding red earth.

Red, green, gold, yellow.