Without Colors I, II, III and spot
Color Pencil on Paper, Digital (Procreate)
2024

“...And chlorophyll was already beginning its progress: mosses and ferns grew green in the valleys where torrents ran... I ran all over the Earth, I saw again the things I had once known grey, and I was still amazed at discovering fire was red, ice white, the sky pale blue, the earth brown, that rubies were ruby-coloured, and topazes the colour of topaz, and emeralds emerald.

I found the menhir garden, now green with trees and grasses. In murmuring pools red and blue and yellow fish were swimming. Ayl’s friends were still leaping over the lawn, tossing the iridescent ball…“

—Without Colors, The Complete Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino




Ada Zejun Shen
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