“At first I thought these complicated constructs of color and pattern were spoiled by the single tiny person Mr. Wong drops into most of them,” he wrote. It’s only the little gray man at a wishing well who turns ‘The Realm of Appearances’ from an exotic but contained garden into the endless expanse of the unconscious. Ms. Wong and her husband, Raymond, both had business careers , and the family relocated to Hong Kong when Matthew was 7. When he was 15 they moved back to Toronto, in part because of his medical needs, and Mr. Wong graduated from high school there. In 2007 he earned a bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology at the University of Michigan, then he held several desk jobs.

Source: New York Times October 21, 2019 20:48 UTC