Method for Eggplant Cultivation

Guan Wei

Guan Wei’s artist’s book Method for Eggplant Cultivation is accompanied here with three preparatory sketches for the work.

Method for Eggplant Cultivation, 1999
Artist’s book, acrylic, rubber stamps and stickers on traditional Chinese guest-book paper, 28cm x 312cm

Guan Wei

Guan Wei’s art appears in HEAT Series 1 and 2.

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In my twenties – living frugally so that I could write and travel, via a very-part-time day job – buying a literary magazine was a big thing; the early editions of HEAT I have on my bookshelf usually tell a story of writing obsessions at the time.

In all weather, but most often in winter, when the days are so short and so cold that seven-tenths of a guard’s life is lived in the dark, or half-dark.

the goldfish pepsi / bumps into / her double in the / mirror glass of the tank / would she try to eat herself / for breakfast we could / play her the tape of dorian / gray

Many persons are fluent in more than one language, but my setting out some years ago at the age of fifty-six to teach myself Hungarian provokes comments and questions from those who get to hear of it.

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Method for Eggplant Cultivation

Guan Wei

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