the words i think of when i was reading this book were:
colorful
beautiful
death
life
forgien
educated
poetic
inspiring
bright
calm
happy
celebrate
family
loalty
love


when i read the book i see:
a lot of bright colors, like reds and oranges but not in a fierce way. in a bright, happy way.
i also see calming neutrals because this book (aside from the invasion aspects) is very calm, tsung tsai is very calm and poetic.
i also see blue for this reason.

when i think of tsung tsai i am floored by how he looks at everything with such wisdom. all i could think about when i was reading this book was death, every time i saw the word i circled it but it never seemed to be very sad. i liked the fact that he looked at everything in life as nessicary and accepts it, even death. i think there is something so amazing about that. i love that he celebrates every aspect of life.


i loved this about the book because of what is going on in my personal life. i remember going to the hospital and sitting on the side of my grandfathers hospital bed while he was struggling to read and i asked "how are you?" and he said "wonderful." i thought there was something so incredibly beautiful about that. he had just accepted the fact that he was laying in a hopsital surrounded by his family just waiting to die. i have been thinking a lot about death lately, as you know from my other project. i want to stay with that (mostly because its all i can think about & i think there is more to be explored with it). this time, though, i want to CELEBRATE death. i want to take all of my writings, all my thoughts, and mix them together with the thoughts from the book that really spoke to me. sort of like how george and tsung tsai's worlds come together and bring a new understanding i want to mix my world with the book. i want to make a series of three collages using the writing and some old family photographs. i want to use obituaries, too, and celebrate the death of everyone. i'm not sure EXACTLY what it is going to look like because i want to experiment with materials. i have the general idea and layout figured out, though.