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 […]
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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.
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aberdeen
I went to Aberdeen in 2007 with my partner at the time, to stay with her family. Funds had been exhausted in the move back to the UK, and it was a struggle for either of us to get our respective projects off the ground. The initial plan was to measure the Aberdeen stay in […]
aldeburgh: i hear those voices
On a beach in Suffolk Arrived on bike To the bottom of the hill, there by the tudor beams and populated boat pond A miniature home, a homage to a dog, a spiral staircase, a scallop sculpture calling, saying “I hear those voices that will not be drowned” I see here my […]
no cure here
Broken boat, broken limb, broken river. And there is much broken about the Ganges, with seemingly little official will to fix it, in contrast to people’s belief in its curative powers. Struts mirror crutch, work suspended, no cure to be had here. February 2013, Varanasi, on the banks of the River Ganges.