as depicted by
by artist: 寒花 froidrosarouge
Spike as the loner on dessert X
the ideal hermit life 隱居 in
Chinese paintings
across different eras
talented painter/ poet/ scholars
went into the mountains
and lead the life of a hermit
for various reasons
some of the common one include
to appreciate mother nature and
it inspires them in their artwork etc
to avoid serving the government
which is probably due to
different ideology /
doesn’t like the current government
and so on
and the other half
having served the government
offended some people or even the emperor
or get disappointed with the current system
and decided to quit and
stay in the mountain
and for some
who are not lucky enough to
persue the life of escapism
due to commitment etc
they would still
expressed their intention to do so
via their paintings / poems etc
Spike the Lonely Hermit
沙漠居士
the artist actually
captioned this as Life of Pie
