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Not everyone is comfortable with words; some people can fully express themselves through music, others through images. For this reason, we have decided to start this new type of format in which we give 5 prompts to some of the illustrators we like the most and ask them to respond through sketches. Not something complex and elaborate, but just rough sketches on paper, like when as children we give shape to our imagination. This is Danzhu Hu.
Danzhu Hu is a New York–based illustrator originally from China, whose work explores emotional experience in a highly digitalized age. Her illustrations often feature glossy, otherworldly figures that exist between intimacy and distance, reflecting themes of connection, alienation, and contemporary surrealism.
Her illustrations have been internationally recognized by the World Illustration Awards, American Illustration, and the iJungle Illustration Awards. She has collaborated extensively within book publishing, contributing to projects with Penguin Random House and Book of the Month, as well as editorial commissions for TIME Magazine and Bloomberg Businessweek.
When you were a child, what did you dream you’d become?
What did you eat last night?
Your favorite activity
Your idea of serenity
How do you see yourself in 20 years?
