detroit - Jack Cheng

Front entrance of Toledo Museum with modern orange steel sculpture, sun flare from low afternoon light.

#431: Embodied Work

Ten years in Detroit, and on work you take or don’t take home with you.

Two red lion mask heads and barrel drum awaiting performance in front of bookshelves.

#399: A Book Launch

Highlights from my book launch event (and week).

POV looking down at canvas bag with half a dozen hardcovers version of The Many Masks of Andy Zhou.

#397: Shanghainese Midwestern

Early hardcovers, debut illustrations, recent interviews, and Gene Luen Yang.

Moody red-lit stage with band, set decorated with groups of thin parallel rods running from stage to ceiling.

#370: Making the Mountain

The origins of my new short story.

Glimpsing snow-covered conservatory through wintered wildflowers.

#359: Random Days

On discovering my hidden extrovert.

Snowy sun-peaked Annapurna II

#281: Kresge Artist Fellowship

#211: Sun and Wind

#211: Sun and Wind

#210: Doors Unlocking

#210: Doors Unlocking

#208: The Flowers

#208: The Flowers

#207: Get Ready, Stay Ready

Rainy day paradegoers, dressed in red and black.

#195: Nowruz and the Nain

#163: Last Days in Detroit, For Now

#162: On Despair and Imagination

#159: Techno-Shabbat

#93: New Languages

#87: How Easily They Wash Away

Snowy street at night, tire tracks carved into driveway. Streetlight glare, a couple of porch lights and garbage cans.

#86: Wet Clay

Black and white bike parked next to bench. Detroit river and skyline in background.

#77: Void

#76: A Detroit Mix

#76: A Detroit Mix

#75: Once Upon a Time in Detroit

#74: One Week In

#73: Things I Have Done This Week for the First Time in My Life