FAQ What does "yuumei" mean?Yuumei (幽冥 or 幽明) means light and darkness, strange and deep, hades, and semidarkness. Not to be confused with yuumei (有名) which means famous... (In my defense, I picked this name when I was 12 and didn't realize it also meant famous...) What projects are you working on right now?A complete list of all past, present, and future projects can be found here http://yuumei.deviantart.com/journal/Current-and-Future-Projects-286619795 Why didn't you reply to my comment/note?I'm terribly sorry but due to the enormous amount of notes and comments I receive, it's simply impossible to read and reply to most of them. I tried to reply to all the notes but it eventually just got to be too much and took time away from drawing. If you have very important news to tell me (such as reports of art theft, requests to help none-profit organization, or business offers, etc) please e-mail me at yuumei.yan@gmail.comFor a
A Tale of AwarenessLanding on one of my usual spots I find that the ground is covered in some slick black substance. Unsure about it I investigate how walking is, finding it difficult I return to the skies. Maybe I can find a better place for food. Moving out into the water I can only see the water has darkened, not knowing it would be even worse there, I landed on it to float. Fish!But no. Only some dead ones on the surface. Now my feathers are covered in the substance that was on the ground. At least I'm pretty sure it's the same. It feels the same to my feet and smells the same as well. This isn't working. Attempting to flap my wings to get out of this wat
Oil Spill --Remember Tomorrow-Oil Spill 5-28-10 Miles of beautiful, clear, water was stretched out before me, my hard shell cut through crystal waves, enveloping me in warmth. Our newcomers, babies that could barely ride our wake, trailed behind us, spinning in all directions, some even drifting upside down and backwards. The water was slowly getting warmer, we were almost home. We passed a school of brightly colored tropical fish, slicing through the water at record speeds. They were beautiful to watch, but something was wrong, they were swimming the wrong way. Back to the cold. One of our females swam ahead, curious like women are, but was swallowed
.:g a i a:..:g a i a:.at this very momenttrees are burninganimals are dyingtemperatures are risingglaciers are meltingseas are risingthe earth is being poisoned slowlyby usand we don't carewe go on with our daily livesand pretend that it's all justa fairytalebecause we're not affectedin any waybut just imaginethirty years laterwhen the mightiest glaciers have been meltedand reduced to nothing morethan little lumps of cold blue icefloating around in foreboding black waterswhen the levels of the seas begin to riseand cover the landsthen people will scramble for higher landto escape the clutchesof the icy s