Seth Godin
騰飛 “Go!”
Seth Godin writes about marketing and about the work of making things — Purple Cow, This Is Marketing, The Practice — and has published a blog post very nearly every day for over twenty years.
Fei interviewed him in 2018. He is one of the two people she names as her teachers; the other is Krista Tippett, three doors down this page.
Xiang has never met him. She painted the word GO onto the silk in English block capitals — the only English in the whole section — and wrote 騰飛, <em>to soar</em>, underneath it in Chinese.
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What is in this painting
Xiang Li builds a portrait out of creatures. Each one is a claim about the person sitting among them.
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1 GO
In white block capitals, top right. The only English Xiang has painted onto any of these silks.
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2 騰飛
Written under it in Chinese: to soar, to take off. The same instruction twice, in two languages.
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3 The bird
Dark blue, perched on his shoulder, looking straight out at you while he looks away.
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4 The yellow glasses
His own.
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5 The red ground
Cinnabar, edge to edge, with a gold line drawn round his head where a halo would be.
