Koji pottery is a type of folk art commonly seen on traditional architecture, combining modeling, firing and painting, that originally developed in China’s Fujian province. Popular themes include auspicious wishes, legends and fables, folk tales and stories from history. The pottery is often used on temples or as decorative elements on traditional residences. Koji pottery […]
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活用成語: 騎虎難下
Taipei Times bilingual article
活用成語:畫龍點睛
活用成語:雷聲大雨點小
stairs; door; track
There are certain objects in the physical world, often related to ideas of movement or transition, that lend themselves to metaphor. Stairs, for example, allow ascension, relocation from a lower level to a higher one. People at the top may seem, or feel, powerful, but also exposed; people below could feel, or appear to be, […]
this is not that
I saw this scene at an art gallery in Taipei two years ago. It was part of an open-air installation consisting of hanging fabric. It was a cross between a maze of corridors and doorways and someone’s washing hanging out to dry on a line. On a calm day, everything was static. When […]
silence
Taipei Times bilingual article The day after the storm, after Typhoon Megi blew merry hell on Tuesday night, all was quiet again in Neihu’s Dahu Park.
wheel
Wu Cheng-hung (吳正宏), 77, is the 23rd generation of a line of potters that started in Cizao town (磁灶鎮) in 5th century China. His grandfather, Wu Ji (吳及, 1878 to 1949), left Cizao at the end of the Qing dynasty to make a living in Taiwan, bringing the coiling technique and kick wheel technology practiced […]
dangling hands
Go to the parks dotted around Taipei, or other towns and cities around Taiwan And you will likely see,
eggshell
Taipei Times article Taipei Times photo page Wu Yao-cheng (吳要城), 84, holds up a white porcelain bowl to the window in his studio home in Yingge District (鶯歌), New Taipei City. It is painted inside with auspicious symbols and outside in a scene of monkeys. Wu didn’t paint it: his specialty is making […]