I don’t know. I guess it’s a measure of how safe Taiwanese society is, but when I see a guy emerging from a store opposite the restaurant I’m sitting in carrying a big rifle, it sets me on edge. Since I was in Taiwan, after the initial moment of unease, I took out my camera […]
Archives for March 2017
清明上河圖
The painting Along the River During the Qingming Festival depicts a bustling scene of the life of ordinary people along the banks of the Bian River by the Northern Song capital of Kaifeng. The earliest version, now in the collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing, was painted by the Northern Song artist Zhang […]
new noir
There’s something that fascinates me about a person concentrating upon a view of their reflection in a mirror. Compositionally it presents a challenge, and yet is quite simple. It’s the eye, stupid. It is the eye that is looking, the eye that it the center of attention, and the eye that may well be the […]
triptych
olduk
This is just a random selection of photos from the UK, from around 2005 to 2015. There’s not a lot to link them: I was just looking through some old scans the other day and chose these. There’s the one of Alex taking time out as I’m searching for photos to take, knowing that I […]
活用成語:雞鳴戒旦
The idiom 雞鳴戒旦, literally “the cock crows, announcing the dawn” originates from a poem called the Cock Crows in the Odes Of Qi in the ancient Chinese classic the Book of Poetry. The poem imagines a virtuous woman repeatedly cautioning the licentious and dissolute Duke of Ai to attend to affairs of state when the […]
活用成語:徒勞無功
The ancient Chinese Taoist thinker and philosopher Zhuangzi, in the Revolution of Heaven chapter of the Outer Chapters section of the work attributed to him, wrote the curious phrase 「今蘄行周於魯,是猶推舟於陸也」: “attempting these days to put into practice the old ways of Zhou in Lu is like pushing a boat on dry land.”
寧靜
A quiet, peaceful, tranquil scene, composed mainly of gentle blues and serene greens. The greens surround the statue in the background, a Buddha figure in a meditative pose, seated on a platform of bluish rock. The statue’s pose is mirrored by that of the elderly woman in the foreground, seated on a rock island in […]