#sally deng

[like-i-need-a-hole-in-my-head]

Saw the illustration on the right by Sally Deng under an article entitled “The Trouble with Paradise” and immediately thought of Aaron Douglas’s “Into Bondage” (left). There’s something tickling my brain - a metaphor, an analogy, but it’s not forthcoming.

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BİSMİLLAH☝️

ELHAMDÜLİLLAH 🤲

Allahümme Salli ala Muhammed ❣️

ALLAHIM BANA ZARAR DOKUNDU😓 SEN İSE MERHAMETLİLERİN EN MERHAMETLİSİSİN 🤲🥲 HÜZÜNLERİMİZİ MUTLULUĞA DÖNÜŞTÜR ALLAHIM 🤲 AMİN 🤲

SENİN AŞKINDAN BAŞKA KALBIME AŞIK NASİP ETME. SENDEN GAYRİSİNİ GÖRÜRSEN, KUDRETINLE ÇIKAR AL YA RABBİM 😢😢

SENSİN YÂR. SENDEN BAŞKA FANİ SEVGİ YARA OLUR GÖNLÜMDE. CANIM DA SENİN, MEKANDA SENİN ALLAHIM 🤲 ŞU NÂCİZ BEDENIM RUHUM SANA SANA TESLİM 🤲😢

BİSMİLLAH ☝️

ELHAMDÜLİLLAH 🤲

Allahümme Salli ala Muhammed ❣️

Kullarının insafına bırakma beni Allah'ım 🥺🤲 HÜKÜMDE SENİN HİKMET TE, HİDAYETTE, BENİ İSLAM LA ŞEREFLENDİRDİĞ��N GİBİ, KALBİMDE Kİ İMANIMI DAIMİ KÂVİ EYLE🤲 NEFSİMİN KUDRET ELİNDE BULUNA NA YEMİN OLSUN Kİ ☝️ SENDEN GAYRI KAPIM YOKTUR ALLAHIM. KORUYAN DA SEN, TAKTİR EDEN DE. GÜZEL İKRAMINA " KADERINE GÖNLÜMÜ RAZI EYLE ALLAH'IM 🤲 ŞEYTAN ATIL BIRAKIPTA NEFSI GÜNAH İŞLETİRKEN, KALBİ SECDE EDEN KULLARINI, RAHMETIN LE BAĞIŞLA ALLAH'IM 🤲 ALLAHIM SENSIN RAHÎM, SENİN SELÂM🥲 BİZİ AFFETTİM DEDİĞİN KULLARININ ARASINA KAT YA RABBİM 🤲

ALLAHIM SENIN SEVGİNİ VER, SENİ SEVENLERİN SEVGISINİ, SEVDİKLERINLE DOST" CENNETE DEK ARKADAŞ EYLE 🤲 GÜLLERDEN GÜZELIMİZ PEYGAMBER EFENDİMİZ E KOMŞU EYLE 🤲

BİSMİLLAH ☝️

ELHAMDÜLİLLAH 🤲

Allahümme Salli ala seyyidina Muhammed in "ve alâ Ali seyyidina Muhammed 🤲☝️🥲

Allah katında hiç bir dua yoktur ki, Efendimize salavat getirilipte Allah'a ulaşmasın. Rabbim Gönlümüze Kabul ve Razı olacağın Güzel dualar İlhak eyle 🤲 EY MERHAMETLİLERİN EN MERHAMETLİSİ 🥲☝️ CEZANDAN, AZABINDAN, GAZABINDAN 😢AFFINA VE RIZANA MERHAMETİNE SIĞINIRIZ 🤲🥺❣️ SENDEN SANA SIĞINIRIZ ALLAH'IM 🤲 SANA OLAN KORKUMUZDA, SEVGİMİZDE DE GÜZEL BİR ÖLÇÜ VE DENGE NASİP EYLE 🤲 SENİN HİDAYETİN VE HİKMETİNLE BİZİ ŞEREFLENDİRDİĞİN GİBİ, SON NEFESTE HAYIRLI BİR ÖLÜMLE, İMANIMIZLA CANIMIZI ALARAK ŞEREFLİ İHLASLI İMANLI KULLARINDAN EYLE 🤲 ŞÜKREDİN Kİ NİMETİMİ ÜZERİNİZDE ÇOĞALTAYIM DİYE BUYURAN RABBİMİZ, BİZİDE ŞÜKREDEN KULLARINDAN KIL, KADERE İSYAN VE ŞİKAYET EDEN KULLARINSAK AFFET BİZİ, KADERİMİZE BİZİ SALAMETLE İMANLA, RAZI EYLE 🤲 AMİN 🤲 ECMAİN 🤲

Duamızın kabulü için ☝️

Ve bil'hassa ALLAH RIZASI İÇİN 🤲

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim

Elhamdülillahi Rabbil alemiyn.

Er-Rahmanirrahim.

Malî'ki'yev'middiyn.

İyyâ'ke'nağ'budu ve iyyâ' kenestain.

İh'dinas'sıradél' müstakiym.

Sirâdâl'leziyné en'ğam'te aleyhim.

Ğayril' mağ'dubi Âleyhim.

Véléd'daaaaaaaaal'liiiiiiiiiiinyn. ÂMİN 🤲

Allahümme Salli ala seyyidina Muhammed 🤲🥲🤲

Okuduğumuz Fatiha suresi ni Peygamber efendimiz in, Mübarek temiz pak, ruhuna, hediye ettik, kabul makbul, ve haberdar eyle Allah'ım 🤲🥲

Haslâten, İlk Peygamberden, Son mü'min kullarının arasında yaşayacak, ölecek, ölmüş olan, geçmiş ve gelecekte yaşayan, ve ölcek kullarının ruhlarına da, hediye ettik kabul eyle Allah'ım Amin 🤲

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Mont-Saint-Martin

Je faisais pivoter le présentoir à cartes postales de la librairie, lorsque je découvris, noyée sous les « Bonnes fêtes ! » et les « Bonne année ! », cette illustration de la baie du Mont-Saint-Michel de l’artiste californienne Sally Deng. Le Mont-Saint-Michel. En plein dixième arrondissement de Paris.

Longtemps, l’enfant naïve que j’étais a cru que ce gros caillou surmonté d’une majestueuse cathédrale et d’un gonze doré terrassant un dragon en jupette et collants était de toutes les mers, de tous les océans. Pour ma défense, il faut dire que je ne quittais que rarement le petit village de quelques 450 âmes dans lequel j’ai, à ce jour, passé la majeure partie de ma courte vie et où je pouvais quotidiennement contempler la baie, le Mont et son voisin Tombelaine, tristement ignoré des touristes. La surprise fut grande lorsque pour la première fois je me retrouvais en Charente-Maritime à considérer, au beau milieu de cette étendue d’eau qui ne m’était pas familière, le belliqueux Fort Boyard – que j’avais pourtant probablement vu des centaines de fois à la télévision – en lieu et place de mon cher Mont (ou plutôt celui de ma grand-mère, Michèle ; autre croyance difficile à déloger de la tête d’une enfant). Non, franchement, ça n’avait pas la finesse de l’escalier de dentelle menant à l’archange que j’avais un jour pris grand soin d’observer, saisie de vertige, les yeux rivés sur les marches mollement gravies. J’écrivis sur-le-champ à mon grand-père que je voulais « revoir ma Normandie ». J’avais compris.

Et pourtant, bien des années plus tard, me voici tout à la fois sur le canal Saint-Martin et face au Mont-Saint-Michel, une pensée à l’esprit pour cette petite fille attirée mais effrayée par l’ailleurs, cherchant toujours de son regard inquiet un signe familier.

[ladyherenya]

A good month for reading! Despite November’s demands and deadlines, it didn’t turn into a repeat of last November (when I apparently didn’t have the headspace for reading) nor of some of 2022′s more stressful months (when I didn’t have the headspace for some of my favourite genres and instead mostly subsisted on contemporary romance).

Total: Ten novels (including two audiobooks), one novella and one picture book.

Still reading: The Swallows’ Flight by Hilary McKay, Naughty Dragons Try School! by Natalie Jane Prior and Ten Thousand Stitches by Olivia Atwater.

My favourites: Sarah Morris Remembers (interesting, poignant and enjoyable), The Codebreaker’s Secret (vivid relationships and scenery) and Half a Soul (delightful and satisfyingly not fluffy).

I’d also recommend: Any of these, really -- if one likes their respective genres. (Some of them didn’t appeal so much to me but I’m chalking that up to a me-thing.)

Cover thoughts: I like the cover for A Prayer for the Crown-Shy.

Titles, authors, genres and ratings listed below, with links to my reviews on LibraryThing.

Miss Moriarty, I Presume? by Sherry Thomas. Sixth Charlotte Holmes mystery, following on from Murder on Cold Street. Set in Victorian England. 3☆

Sarah Morris Remembers by D.E. Stevenson (narrated by Patience Tomlinson). A coming-of-age novel about growing up in England the 30s and working in London during WWII. 3½☆

Ex Appeal by Cathy Yardley. Contemporary romance, same series as Love, Comment, Subscribe and Gouda Friends.

Naughty Dragons Make Trouble! by Natalie Jane Prior (illustrated by Simon Howe). Children's fantasy about fostering two dragons. 3½☆

Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell. Science-fiction. Military space opera with telepathy. 3½☆

Skyward: the story of female pilots in WWII by Sally Deng. Fictionalised-nonfiction picture book. 3½☆

The Codebreaker's Secret by Sara Ackerman. Historical mystery set in Hawaii, about a code breaker in 1943 and a journalist in 1965. 3½☆

Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater. Romantic regency fantasy. 3½☆

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers. Science-fiction novella about a robot and a tea monk. Sequel to A Psalm for the Wild-Built. 3☆

Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade. Companion-sequel to Spoiler Alert and All the Feels. Fandom-y contemporary romance. 3☆

We Can't Keep Meeting Like This by Rachel Lynn Solomon. Young adult fiction about a summer working for her family's wedding business. 3☆

Keeping the Castle by Patrice Kindl. Romantic historical fiction set in a (fictional?) coastal English community. 3☆

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Gritty Louisville back in NCAA volleyball national-title match with 4-set win over Pitt

NCAA Women Lee Feinswog December 19, 2024 Louisville’s Charitie Luper tips against Pitt’s Rachel Fairbanks, left, and Bre Kelley/Sally Deng photo LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — No DeBeer? No problem. Not when you have Payton Peterson. There is nothing like Louisville and Pittsburgh in NCAA volleyball and the Cardinals wrote another chapter in their incredible recent history with a 21-25, 25-23, 29-27,…

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Military movements

Emperor Xian has mobilised 350,000 of Cao Cao’s troops inclusive of their camp followers. After hearing his orders, veteran army commander Li Liling remarked, “Doing so would drain all our stores, and destroy the roads, particularly among the less populated North! Has our leader Cao Cao approved this?” Food stores, already drawn down by Deng Ping, have been virtually emptied. How will the troops go back to their hometowns? The troops are starving to the point that some of them resemble walking skeletons. Defensive preparations have been set up around the commandery as directed, however, given the large size of the commandery, significant amounts of military resources have been deployed. The Northern Tribesmen, seeing this large show of force, has not made any attacks on the commandery, preferring instead to follow a Fabian strategy, avoiding combat and instead raiding supply carts coming into Daifang because the large deployment of troops has reduced protection for the rest of the empire. While current stores can cover the soldier’s food consumption, the supply situation near Daifang is getting more dire by the day, with veteran troops beginning to question Emperor Xian’s orders. “Would maintaining fortified outposts where cavalry can sally out to meet raids, or taking the fight to the Northern Tribesmen directly, be a better strategy?” mused Li Liling. 

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Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams by Katherine Paterson, illustrated by Sally Deng

Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams by Katherine Paterson, illustrated by Sally Deng. Handprint Books, 2024. 9781452182629 Rating:  1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 3 Format: Hardcover picture book Genre: Biography What did you like about the book? Jella Lipman was born in 1891 and raised in privilege in Stuttgart, Germany; she was well-educated abroad and got married at the end…

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Ku coba tidur dulu masih ada sedikit waktu. Dah nanti ketemu dimimpi kita pelukan. Eh ga deng gamau janji takut ga ketemu dimimpi. Aku gasuka janjiin org. Takut gbs nepatin. Manatau dimimpi ku aku ketemu sally corita. Hahaha beda cerita 🫣

[tommyhrst]

https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/sally-deng-illustration-070421

These illustrations from Sally Deng is a style I much prefer, detailed and they look to create an emotional pull to the viewer something I will wish to do within mine, they illustrate the activities going on in a more literal sense rather than being abstract, if I could use elements from all these artists in creating my own it would be very interesting.

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SALLY DENG

This interview from 2019 featuring the brilliant Sally Deng is our last Muse’s Milk post. 

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Muse’s Milk: Tell us your story.

Sally Deng: I was born in Los Angeles and spent most of my life here. I always loved to draw and paint so after high school I applied to the Art Center College of Design. I was miraculously accepted and I’ve been following the trajectory set by that decision ever since. 

MM When given an illustration assignment, where do you begin? Can you discuss your art making process?

SD: If it is for an assignment, my process is pretty straightforward—thumbnails and then final artwork. If I am making art for myself, I enjoy just “going for it” without a real clear idea of where the final will end up. Experimenting and trusting my instincts have often led to me creating some of my favorite pieces. 

MM: What inspired Skyward? Is there something specific that sparked your interest in female pilots of WWII?

SD: I stumbled upon a black and white photo of Hazel Ying Lee, a female Chinese American pilot who flew during WWII. I didn’t know women were even allowed to fly for the government back then, much less a Chinese American woman. From there I just continued to accumulate more photos and stories of these US pilots. (I mean, how could I not?) Once my proposal to do a book was accepted, I extended my research to include female pilots from the UK and Russia.

MM: What do you want readers to know about you, as an artist and as a person?

SD: I’m sorry if I didn’t see your message on Instagram and I usually feel too awkward to respond a week after it was sent. 

MM: Do you have advice for students trying to find their illustration style?

SD: Don’t just look at illustration for inspiration and don’t think of creating a “style”. Styles come and go, focus on making work you’ll like and a coherent voice will naturally emerge. 

MM: Is there anything else you would like to add?

SD: Protect our National Parks.

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Maxwell McMaster & Sally Deng at Nucleus Portland.

Currently on view at Nucleus Portland in Portland, Oregon are two exhibitions with brand new work by artists Maxwell McMaster and Sally Deng.

Maxwell McMaster’s “This is the Remix” is the first installment of his new works that explore the idea of recycle and rebirth. In the same spirt of Duchamp and "Readymade", or Kool Herc and "Break", Maxwell has created a new body of work infusing LP cover art and imposing his own signature style to celebrate these past relics while creating a unique collaboration across time.

Sally Deng’s “Impressions” is a new series of drawings about mountains and the ocean, based off of Sally's experiences of surfing, hiking and backpacking.

The exhibitions will be on view until May 29th, 2019.

Be sure to follow Supersonic Art on Instagram!

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Sally Deng

[theillustrationconference]

Making Everything Work: An Interview with Josh Cochran, ICON11′s Stage Chair

Josh Cochran grew up in Taiwan and California. Based in Brooklyn, he works as an illustrator and muralist specializing in bright, dense, and conceptual work. He's received a bunch of awards, including a Grammy nomination for Best Packaging. He loves working on side projects and occasionally exhibits his work in galleries. Josh has a children's book set to be released early next year by Enchanted Lion.

What's your favorite memory from past ICON conferences?

I loved doing the stage at the last ICON in Detroit. It was way crazier and a lot more work than I expected, but I really enjoyed the challenge of figuring out how to make everything work. I got to meet a lot of really great illustrators and students who helped me make everything there in Detroit. It was kind of a dream!

Tell me about your practice!

My practice is somewhat of a mixed bag. I work on a bunch of different kinds of projects: from animation to murals to my current project, which is finishing up a children's book. Sometimes I feel a little scattered, but my interests are quite varied and I think it's really nice for my creativity to be able to work on different kinds of projects. I tend to feel a little restricted when I work on just one kind of project for a long period of time.

What is your studio/office space like?

I work out of a space in an old converted ketchup factory in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. I share this space with some really talented illustrators and designers (Sam Weber, Dan Salmieri, John Custer, and Jim Datz). I've been fortunate to share this space with people I consider some of my closest friends and also be inspired by them on a daily basis. I've always tried to recreate the amazing creative experience I had at school and having a shared studio here in Brooklyn has definitely been a close second to that feeling.

What's your hometown and where do you currently live?

I consider Los Angeles my hometown. However, I've been living in Brooklyn for over ten years and it's starting to feel much more like home. Can I love two places at once??

Who are some of your favorite emerging creatives?

Alexa Lim Haas made one of the most beautiful short animated films I've seen in a long time (Agua Viva). To name a few peeps, I'm really into Molly Snee, Alicia Adamerovich, Ariel Davis, Claire Merchlinsky, Sally Deng, Leo Santamaria, AJ Dungo, Clarissa Liu, Jackson Epstein, Haleigh Mun, Keiko Nabila Yamazaki, and probably a bunch more that I'm forgetting right now! 

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Cdrama: Ban Shu Legend (2015)

Gifs of Ending of cdrama “Ban Shu Legend”  

【#乐游原 同款電視劇】 班淑傳奇 Ban Shu Legend EP 01 | Eng Sub（景甜，迪麗熱巴主演）

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf7NteOkebI

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