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#30. Mom’s drawing

On holding onto everything

Jonny Sun

Apr 27
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My parents were finally able to visit and I was showing my mom the app on my iPad that I use to do all my illustrations for this newsletter and my mom took my pencil and drew this. (She would like everyone to know, for the record, that she can, and I quote, “certainly draw better than that one”, and that this was just a quick 10 second sketch, but that makes it even sweeter to me.)

She’s kept every drawing I ever drew ever since I was a kid, and in the same way, now I feel like I am trying to immortalize her in every way that I can, which is why I am sharing it here — hanging it up and framing it, in a way, in this personal space where I am collecting things that are important to me. So thank you, for reading this, for being part of that.

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From quietly provocative international best selling author and TV writer Jonny Sun, A small list of knowable things is a weekly illustration and reflection on a personal object close to his heart. If you haven't already, you can subscribe here.

  1. Telephone

  2. Carrot (imagined)

  3. Marimo moss ball

  4. Traffic model

  5. Tin of fried dace with salted black beans

  6. Study of the interior volume of the Sant’Eligio degli Orefici in Rome

  7. Engraved stainless steel cup (belonging to Hrishikesh Hirway)

  8. 3.5mm auxiliary cord input

  9. Digimon Digivice D3

  10. Glass of water (overfilled but not yet spilled over)

  11. Lily pad

  12. Chess piece (rook)

  13. ZZ plant (Zamioculcas zamiifolia)

  14. Fountain pen

  15. Bucket

  16. Succulent arrangement (after 9 months)

  17. Rock (ordinary)

  18. Chocolate chip cookie (with chocolate chips omitted)

  19. Shelly Senbei rice crackers

  20. Ficus Audrey (Ficus benghalensis)

  21. Dictionary

  22. Bouquet of flowers (after one week)

  23. 1-2-3 block

  24. Dumpling water

  25. Bundled pair of socks

  26. Restaurant t-shirt

  27. Pilea peperomioides (“Chinese money plant”)

  28. Dou miao (Snow pea shoots)

  29. Pothos (from my book, Goodbye, Again)

  30. Mom’s drawing

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  • Silvana Ordoñez
    this is the best!! I also want to see your mom's collection of all your drawings 😃
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