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Published on the occasion of The Drawing Center's exhibition, Sun Xun: Shock of Time includes nearly 50 images by Hangzhou-based artist Sun Xun (b. 1980, China), all stills from his hand-drawn animations Shock of Time (2006) and Lie of the Magician (2005). The former depicts various tropes and metaphors of duration and transience made from hundreds of single illustrations drawn onto old Communist newspaper and magazine pages. The latter makes use of the artist's own body as a landscape for images of nature (rain clouds evaporating, seedlings taking root) that evoke myths of creation. This volume, number 85 in the Drawing Papers series, includes essays by curator Joao Ribas and author and critic Richard Vine.