The shadow of war
Terror crawls and suffocates
A place of love burns
(image from shauntan.net)
Why do people up sticks and go to live in a new country? There are many reasons of course, but I always feel for those who are fleeing war and poverty. I read Shaun Tan’s “The Arrival” today. Debbie bought it for me for my birthday last year. Tan creates a fantastical world, the art is incredible, the detail is phenomenal. The fact it’s written without dialogue captures that immigrant isolation perfectly, their hopelessness, their inability to communicate, their fear of sinking in the depths of the city they’ve moved to. I’m not exactly happy with the quality of the Haiku, but I wanted to capture something of this beautiful book.
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