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t-shirt
I went to Donggang and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
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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 […]
bridge
The footbridge leading up to the National Palace Museum Southern Branch in Chiayi, central Taiwan, where a woman is playing hide and seek with her child.
文昌宮
Today we went to the Wunchang Temple in Taipei. Apparently, this is where you go to give thanks to the gods for success in exams. Jiayu just passed the written phase of an entrance exam. The temple itself is quite modest. It’s in a very old part of the city. There’s the main shrine with […]
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These are a selection of images I took for a local artist friend, Shulin Wang. Shulin paints with traditional Chinese ink painting techniques on porcelain, and is now experimenting with leaving a matt finish to accentuate the texture of the fired brushwork. She also makes teapots themed on the Maitreya Buddha, emphasizing the rotund physique […]
hike
Hike in Yangmingshan on Aug. 19. Welcome respite from the sweltering heat of August in Taipei.
triptych
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 […]