Design and Style
Pretty pleased with my first pho attempt. Used this recipe, roughly. I had with it that kind of pseudo-success that gives me the impression I can do much better next time. I am so sure of this that it is almost as if I have already done it so well as I soon will.
Of course I would like a dish that is almost wholly made up of garnish.
My friend Farrin has nearly finished the piece I modeled for (earlier draft with orientation here). Incredible, delicate intricacy in ink and watercolor. Wreathing the edge is the phrase I believe in dreams repeated in many languages. Bordered by vines and flowers and firebirds, flanked by sphinxes and I myself a kind of hybrid womansphinx. A hybrid of a hybrid. A meta-hybrid. Love. How ideal are the proportions of these wings?
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