EXPRESS YOURSELF

Better Creativity in 2 Minutes (a Day)

An illustrated essay

Yi Shun Lai
Human Parts
Published in
4 min readDec 8, 2021

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Alt text for this essay is below. Thank you for reading! P.S. Blob birds inspired by Sophie Lucido Johnson

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Stars, planets and suns create a border below the title

I woke up this morning thinking about this shape:

Ink drawing of a semi-circle on its flat side.

Sure, it’s a half-circle. But in my head, it took on some of these forms:

All illustrations are watercolor and ink. Head of teddy bear with glassy black eyes; semi-circles form ears labeled TEDDY BEAR

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Yi Shun Lai
Human Parts

Author: A SUFFRAGISTS’S GUIDE TO THE ANTARCTIC (2024), Pin Ups (2020). Former columnist, The Writer. theGooddirt.org Psst: Say “yeeshun.” You can do it!