"God of Moe" Lucky Envelope
To welcome the year of the Cat in Viet Nam (In China is The Rabit), I made myself a lucky envelope series Phúc - Lộc - Thọ - Táo Quân - Phật. Each one represents a famous, iconic God in Viet Nam every spring come. During The Tet holiday, we always have a cult of worshiping those Gods.
Below is a digital verson and RISO printing verson
Phúc - The Gods represent for Happiness: This GosHappiness is associated with the image of children and grandchildren
Lộc - The Gods represent for Wealth: This Gos is associated with the image of gold, money around.
Thọ - The Gods represent for Longevity: This Gos is associated with the image of an old man, with a long beard, carrying his cane with a bottle gourd hanging on.
Táo quân: This Gos lives in our kitchen, representing every family gathering meal. And before Tet holiday each year, he drives a carp back to the sky and reports to Ngọc Hoàng (The King of Gods)
Phật - Buddha:
Each God comes with a different pattern: water - gold/money - lotus - cloud - lotus that I think suits their spirit. And all of them is Vietnamese ancient pattern.
As you can see, they seem to not doing their job well, Happiness isn't happy, Wealth isn't a hard-working God, Longevity seems so tired, Tao Quan is so crazy ( who knows what he is going to report), and Buddha looks cunning, he seems to like taking all the money from Lo To ( a game we play on Tet). Why do I want to draw them completely different from their spirit. I want you shake off the pretense and return to being yourself, confidently showing off your persionality, don't let people stick the label on you.
