Christopher Tin: Hope is the Thing With Feathers

“Said to be expressions of his innocence and shyness, little birds perching on tree branches is a favoured and recurrent subject matter in Lin Fengmian’s works. Sixteen birds sit atop of tree branches, consciously scattered throughout the painting in an organized manner: in similar size and shape, the leaves are of the same autumnal colour…

Teasdale, Tin, and Memley: There Will Come Soft Rain, Part I

“There Will Come Soft Rains” by Sara Teasdale There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum-trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not…