Homage to Our Future

Excerpt

This issue’s cover art is a portrait of Luoyuang Wei, a young girl from Lipu, Guangxi Province, China. Our featured artist, her father, paints in the true naïve style—he has never received formal training in art and paints as a hobby at his farm on the edge of town. Mr. Shangzheng Wei’s painting is one that any parent can understand. It makes a simple, bold statement: “Here is my daughter, our future”. Its pure figurative nature draws our eye directly to the subject and the statement that it makes. The scenery melts away, the detail becomes irrelevant, and we’re left with a confidence that is curiously satisfying and unpretentious. …