Chun the Unavoidable
Getting Back Into the Swing of Things by Jack Clendenen I've been off Instagram for about 2 months (hallelujah), and thankfully, I have been using that time to create more projects. Take this one, for example, that I made in about 30 hours in December 2024. 'Twas a Christmas gift for my brother who blessed me with The Dying Earth - my first Jack Vance novel. It was an exciting challenge to take a crack at capturing 'Essence de Chun'. With little to go on but this brief description, "Over his shiny black back he wore a robe of eyeballs threaded on silk." It was liberating to trust that I could follow the scent anywhere. I took inspiration from Toshiro Mifune in Yojimbo (1961), from whom I modeled Chun's silk robe and topknot (or Chonmage) hairstyle. The chonmage...