I went to Donggang and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
fair
These photos are a year old. They were taken during the Baishatun Matsu pilgrimage of 2016, on the first and last days. The photos I originally chose from these sets were selected to support a report we did on the pilgrimage, and so these were ignored. Looking back on them a year later offers that […]
spain
After a break of several years, I’m returning to the darkroom to learn toning techniques. The photo was taken with a Minolta Autocord, printed on Ilford Art, first skin and table sepia toned, dress and pot coloured using Fotospeed palette toner blue without intensifier and then covered in resist while the print was submerged […]
triptych
三峽書法
This is a photo of what appears to be a family, two women, possibly sisters, and two children, a boy and a girl. It’s possible the group is two mothers and their children. Just behind the group stands another woman, who may well be the mother of one of the women, or both. […]
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 […]
dangling hands
Go to the parks dotted around Taipei, or other towns and cities around Taiwan And you will likely see,
ware
Chen Chengqing Taipei Times article Chen Cheng-ching’s (陳澄清) boss asked him whether he could imitate the decorative motif painted on the National Palace Museum’s Ming 100 Deer Vase (百鹿尊). The Chinese like that one, he said. It symbolizes great wealth. Chen worked on the composition, and his co-workers copied it.
張松山
I interview Yingge artist Chang Sung-shan (張松山). He talks of his life, his art, his plans. His brush dances over the lid of the pot he is painting as he talks. I assume he’s just distractedly doodling.
阿萬師
Master Wan Taipei Times article Pottery stores along Yingge Old Street (鶯歌老街) won’t sell teapots made by Tseng Tsai-wan (曾財萬) these days. “They’re too expensive. A single teapot fetches up to NT$70,000 these days,” he tells us.