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Yaya Yajie Liang, My bones are branches of the stars, where dust spirals outward from within. I curl like ancient oracle bone script, quietly forming the shape of water in the belly of the carp’s migration. When my eyelids close, all the inverted wheat be
Title: Yaya Yajie Liang, My bones are branches of the stars, where dust spirals outward from within. I curl like ancient oracle bone script, quietly forming the shape of water in the belly of the carp’s migration. When my eyelids close, all the inverted wheat be
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Oil on canvas, 180 × 220 cm.
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