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This book is a spin-off from a workshop on Chinese calligraphy that I did in Boulder, Colorado, in I composed a poem made up of Chinese symbols on natural elements. The poem was written with sumi brush on a scroll of paper towel. It is now — so twenty-two years from beginning to end — during which the poem lay in my drawer, dormant. The talk inspired a book called Voices of the Heart, and the success of Voices made Beyond the Great Mountains possible.
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First, it was in an accordion format, which turned into this step-down method, a vertical book. What were the challenges literary, research, psychological, and logistical in bringing it to life? The challenge was to understand their evolution, since there are no ready-made answers, even among experts. Also to find the right format, which completes the book.
The rest was easy. When it was in the scroll format, it was simply sumi ink written with brush on paper towel. Then it was in a collage with limited colors in a tall and narrow accordion format. At Chronicle, it was finalized into the step-down format. Afterward, I redid the illustrations within a few months, by rounds and rounds of negotiations between mediums and sizes, until all the pages became a family.
What would you say have been your biggest influences, both as a writer and an illustrator? Or can you separate the two?