Covid-19 continues, and plans for family visits are indefinitely on hold.
Predators and prey can never live in peace. A bunny named Ginger was forced into exile by the arrival of a dog named Rally. A reallocation of supplies after human deaths during Covid-19.
Ginger survived the 23-minutes road trip before succumbing to a gastrointestinal disorder caused by eating too much floor paint. A week before her death, she was forced to take a drug used to treat digestive problems in human babies. The physical structure of her eyes used to help her escape from predators, but right now, she is experiencing the fear that's been amplified through her fisheye lenses - clamped by two large hands, inversion, the dropper is moving to its slow twitching nose and mouth, inverted, she resisted at first, eventually can only swallow. The drug delayed her death for about a week. Early in the morning, the light in Ginger's eyes tardily faded, head and neck tilted back, after exhaling her last breath, Ginger turned into a furry water bag- dead.
2021 started in the shadow of Ginger's death. Looking around, I am also trying to cure an unknown disease, a so-called homesickness disease. When I was 6, one day, I was paralyzed on the ground due to my malfunctioned left hipbone. At that time, there was a medicated patch called Dong Fang Huo Xue Gao - a lump of black goo on a square of red paper. When used, heat it over the fire until slightly melted, let it cool down a little, then press it on the skin. The patch looks like a mythical elixir - A mysterious ointment covered by red paper. People get to chant some incantations such as get well soon and live a long life while heating the patch over the fire, a ritual is held naturally. It was a medicine that people always kept in their drawers in those days.
I see the drawings of 2021 as distorted reflections of my current life. There are opinionated memory retrospection, mockery, doubts, resentments, softness, and the impossibility of being in two places at once. Lian Hua Qing Wen, Kai Xiong Zheng Qi, Wu Ji Bai Feng, and Dan Zhi Xiao Yao. My homesickness disease seems to get a lot better by just chanting these drug names. They brought reassurance.
