Lunchtime recommendation:
At Guerica, Xiaoda Xiao: Prison Paintings, and earlier piece, Nixon’s Nose.
Post and paintings by Xiaoda Xiao, the activist, painter, violinist, and author of The Cave Man, and the forthcoming book The Visiting Suit: Stories From My Prison Life
Xiaoda Xiao is a former political prisoner, sentencedat at age 22 (without benefit of a trial), to a 7 year term in a labor camp, for defacing a poster of Chairman Mao.
check it out
A comment free lunchtime posting.
