{"id":4430,"date":"2011-06-03T10:35:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T09:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/?p=4430"},"modified":"2012-07-27T12:35:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T11:35:27","slug":"false-dichotomy-by-junyi-wu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/false-dichotomy-by-junyi-wu\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;False Dichotomy&#8221; by Junyi Wu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst perusing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Etsy<\/a> for interesting zines, I was taken aback by the amazing <em>False Dictotomy <\/em>by illustrator <a href=\"http:\/\/junyiwu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Junyi Wu<\/a>, filled with sombre, yet beautiful black and white artwork, paired with scrawled passages from the work of poet Emily Dickinson. The pen and ink illustrations of flora are set against sparse white backgrounds that highlight their delicate intricacy, occasionally clouded by expressionistic smudges. Junyi describes <em>False Dictotomy <\/em>as &#8220;journal-like&#8221; \u2013 the handwritten excerpts, complete with mistakes and ink blots, adds to this feel and gives the artwork, despite its still-life subject matter, an emotional intensity that is captivating.<\/p>\n<p>Preview it <a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/junyiwu\/docs\/falsedichotomy\" target=\"_blank\">here,<\/a> and buy it from her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/75032685\/false-dichotomy-34-page-bw-zine\" target=\"_blank\">Etsy store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/junyiwu1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4432\" src=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/junyiwu1-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/junyiwu1-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/junyiwu1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/junyiwu1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst perusing Etsy for interesting zines, I was taken aback by the amazing False Dictotomy by illustrator Junyi Wu, filled with sombre, yet beautiful black and white artwork, paired with scrawled passages from the work of poet Emily Dickinson. The pen and ink illustrations of flora are set against sparse white backgrounds that highlight their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[124,337,340,24],"class_list":["post-4430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-illustration","tag-inspiration","tag-making","tag-zines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4430"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5069,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions\/5069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}