Stay safe HK ❤️ image from windy, showing super typhoon ragasa coming in today. Very strange and creepy to feel no wind yet as its outer bands start moving upon us, but to see waves starting to aggressively smash onto our shores already.

“We breathe, we bloom.” Gorgeous piece by @saipradhan.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social full of little lives and small creatures and finding the beauty in the cyclical nature of living.

A gecko on a canvas, its moves rising and depressing. The canvas is askew, but it's still art. Brilliant use of metaphor told from a unique POV. Read "Come Alive Again" by @saipradhan.bsky.social in Issue 2. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/co…#namjooningn#namjooningbutliteraryry

📢📢 Issue 2 is LIVE! Chock-full of literary deliciousness. We hope you will enjoy (and share!) literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/issue-2 #namjooning #happyrmday

Let's hear it for our fantastic fiction authors! 😍😍 #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

***Drumroll, please! Presenting the dazzling contributor list of Issue 2. So much literary beauty is coming your way! We're beyond excited to share it with you all. #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

Delighted to have a piece in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social Issue 2.

@jmwwjournal.bsky.social thanks to JMWW for publishing this story of mine, and also including my sketch. A swim coach, an octopus, greed, eggs, tides, and more… enjoy the read. jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/11/f...

New series

I wonder if leaders will ever admit that smearing all protests to stop the genocide actually contributed to the genocide. Will there ever be that level of self reflection and honesty or are we just going to get fake surprise like this after mass death.

New work

Art things lately: cards with my art “Unproductive” on them (original sold); sketches on travels, and “Toil Glamour” on display with CriticalMass at Heath, TST, Hong Kong

Art things lately: one auctioned for a charity I support that helps trafficking victims and raised one of the highest sums (!) and another is currently on exhibit in the lovely heritage building that is the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre.

Our Spring 2025 Issue is OUT NOW! Featuring incredible works of eco-writing and translation by emerging and established writers. Read now at the link in our bio!

All packed for the affordable art fair, Hong Kong. Booth a06, young soy gallery. www.saipradhanart.com

“This man ought to be bathing in them, I thought, as I peeled one nimbly, relishing the glory that is the smell of citrus released into a room. I left it unsegmented because I knew the visceral joy of unsticking the neat slices oneself” Enjoy the Provençal light with @saipradhan.bsky.social

Read my “real” book review of AS Byatt's The Matisse Stories, by a “fake” author. My aim was to make it “orotund and idiosyncratic” to match Byatt’s description of one of the characters. Page 190. Thanks for publishing this @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social ✨

Glad to have shared these recommendations for a 3-day HK art filled itinerary with Yolo Journal www.yolojournal.com/hong-kong-it...

Hong Kong folks - time to buy tickets to Affordable Art Fair! This time my work will show with Young Soy Gallery booth A06.

A place new to me on my travels this time: Uzbekistan. Instagram at theparticularrover for things seen, liked, etc on travels, and I contribute to YOLO Journal lately where you can find some of my recs and travel related articles.

How does anybody start to articulate the weirdness of watching certain episodes of a show like Black Mirror whilst also watching for a speedily approaching reality that may mirror it or run right past it, and the sadness that we know, we know, we know all the risks, and yet…

Today's featured work is "Breakfast for Paul," a fiction piece written by @saipradhan.bsky.social and featured in our Spring 2025 Issue, OUT NOW!

30x30 inches Textile abstract

Art for your feed. These belong to a series I call Uncertainty / Possibility.

Read my “real” book review of AS Byatt's The Matisse Stories, by a “fake” author. My aim was to make it “orotund and idiosyncratic” to match Byatt’s description of one of the characters. Page 190. Thanks for publishing this @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social ✨

Wystan recommends @sarahkendzior.bsky.social’s latest - The Last American Roadtrip - ❤️

New artwork IN TIME 40x40 inches

Freshly published. Complexion like a mackerel, sunlit orbs, and a bite…read on. www.thedodgemag.com/saipradhan1 @thedodgemag.bsky.social @addisonzeller.bsky.social

“In spite of” 24x18 inches www.saipradhanart.com

Please, if you love anything about this life, stop using ChatGPT and other GenAI. Just stop. Don't use it to dunk on it, don't use it for a laugh, just stop and let that shit wither.

Honestly wild to do normal things at this time of global planetary heist and destruction but yes I’ll go walk my dogs and prep for an art fair and finish my projects and exercise and plan a meal and reply to emails and pay bills + + + but do excuse my occasional daze and horror stricken face

Can’t wait to read this. PS I have something in this issue.

Enjoy my latest publication in the brilliant magazine Ghost Parachute - a surreal (or is it?) strange thing wrought of contemporary woes. It features some asparagus spears, an apple-headed chihuahua who plaits hair, acid rain, and well, the Gods. ghostparachute.com/issue/march-...

Art for your timeline. I call this “how we gather ourselves together”

I save some @dorothyproject.bsky.social books for long weekends; plucked this one out of the stack for this rainy ching ming festival weekend in Hong Kong ✨

Recipe for popularity at Art Basel or, any art fair really: mirrors. People simply can’t help themselves! #artbaselhongkong

I realize not everyone orders physical copies of literary journals like this, so I’m making this available as I’d love for it to be read more widely. This was a meaningful essay for me to have written, and then, for it to have found space in the excellent Prairie Schooner. (1)

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social always right on point

Art for your feed. www.saipradhanart.com

Never thought I’d say this but I am now glad I wasn’t able to accept my offer to study journalism there some years ago. Columbia had long been a dream school for me to either pursue an MFA, a journalism degree, or study at SIPA. Quite shocked by the level of capitulation.

The law firm that placed the winning bid on this art of mine at a marriage equality charity that I support interviewed me recently, on all things art, equity, and process. Good timing for art month in Hong Kong. www.hugillandip.com/2025/03/expl...

Alarming indeed. The chaos and moving lines that create (legitimate) fear are by design; that’s the usual playbook when these political shifts happen. It’s also shocking to note the absence or fragility of any genuine guardrails against these incidents.

Read my story about geckos and puddings in @doorisajarmag.bsky.social

An artist hopes for her art to sell and when it does, it’s a funny mix of elation and relief. Sometimes, one misses that art even years later.

Always worse than we imagine. This is horrific.

I loved illustrating this one!!! Read @saipradhan.bsky.social story in Ghost Parachute!

Read Read "A dog should never eat too much salt" written by @saipradhan.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "Her raincoat didn’t fit her as well as it used to because of the pointy things growing out of her shoulder blades." tinyurl.com/4sv3zrxm

Two of my abstract artworks are with Tao Gallery in Worli, and ready to be viewed and purchased by private appointment. India based art collectors check them out! More about me: www.saipradhanart.com

Enjoy my latest publication in the brilliant magazine Ghost Parachute - a surreal (or is it?) strange thing wrought of contemporary woes. It features some asparagus spears, an apple-headed chihuahua who plaits hair, acid rain, and well, the Gods. ghostparachute.com/issue/march-...