Kaohsiung Postal Museum Digital Picture Book
Text/ Yusu Tsai
Illustration/ Caiying Fang
Sequential illustrations for Kaohsiung Postal Museum's digital picture Book.
This series depicts a fictional bay post office in Kaohsiung and use animals as representations of the hard working post officers who help people deliver their thoughts and feelings.
為高雄郵政博物館繪製的系列插畫，從十八世紀的港灣郵局故事連結到以高雄為背景的架空郵局，並以動物信差象徵替人們傳遞心意的郵差形象。
In the 18th Century, sailors who are away from home for many years built a wooden barrel on a remote island.
They put their letters in the barrel and hoping the travelers will bring the letters to their destinations.
It is said that there is also a mysterious post office bay in Kaohsiung that delivers peoples' thoughts and feelings.
In Kaohsiung, a grandmother is missing her grandson.
She has not heard of her grandson for many years.
Everyday, she writes down her thoughts of her grandson in her letters.
However, this is a letter with an unknown address.
One day, a pigeon flew into her house and picked up the letter.
The pigeon flew towards the mountain.
The strong wind almost teared her wings up and there are many times she was close to fall off.
Eventually, she flew over the mountain, and headed towards the bay.
At night, an island descended from the sky.
The bay post office showed up in the middle of the sea.
There are many animal post officers in the bay post office who deliver the thoughts and feelings for the writer of the letters.
The letters are shipped in carts by the animal post officers.
Apart from the post officers on the land, the post officers under the sea also start to act.
On a tranquil night, a sailor is watching the sea and missing his faraway family.
A group of ocean post officers are trying hard to swim to the sailor.
That night, people receive packages and letters.
Signs of happiness are shown on the receivers' faces.
The shadows of the animals become the shadow of the post officer.
There is not a single letter in this world can be not delivered.
What the post officer delivers, is felicity.