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First Snow by Bomi Park7/2/2023 ![]() Roll, roll, roll." The child makes a snowball and rolls it along, under streetlamps and the moon, next to an elevated train track, and into the woods. ![]() Ages 2–4.Ī little Korean child celebrates the titular first snow.Bundling up in a white snowsuit, red scarf, and white-and-red mittens, the child tiptoes out of the house in the dark of night to be joined by a young white puppy. Together with the spare, unobtrusive text, the images evoke an atmosphere of enchantment. Park’s artwork recalls the child portraits of mid-20th-century artists like Eloise Wilkin, but gives them new dignity with a somber palette. In the forest, she passes through a light-filled opening into a realm of snowy fantasy, arriving at a place where children rise into the sky to fly with the snowmen they’ve made. Outside, the girl sets to work making a snowman, rolling a snowball along dense urban streets, through a field, and past an elevated train line. ![]() White, canvaslike texture peeks through the black paint in places, mimicking the way bright surfaces catch small amounts of light in the darkness. Glistening, floating in the night.” Alone, she dresses in the velvety darkness and ventures outside, her red scarf the only note of color in the black-and-white spreads. A small child with rosy cheeks and straight hair stirs under her quilt as she hears a noise: “Pit, pit, pit against the window. ![]() JIn her debut, Korean artist Park captures the quiet mystery of snow. ![]()
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