Banshan type jar
5000-2000 B.C.E.
Neolithic period
Earthenware with iron pigments
H: 25.8 W: 29.1 cm
China
http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/zoomObject.cfm?ObjectId=9943
Day 2-Orchid
Orchid
early to mid-20th century
Qi Baishi, (Chinese, 1864-1957)
Modern period
Ink on paper
W: 60.9 cm
China
http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/zoomObject.cfm?ObjectId=51801
Day 1-Monkeys Grasp for the Moon
Monkeys Grasp for the Moon (Freer Sackler)
2004
Xu Bing , (Chinese, active United States, born 1955)
Modern period
Lacquer on Baltic birch wood
H: 137.8 W: 50.0 D: 4.2 cm
China
http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/zoomObject.cfm?ObjectId=47072
New York City, Pt. 2
My neighborhood, early one morning, spring 2011. Never know what you’ll find on an early morning walk. I got the feeling this plant was checking to see if it was safe to sneak around the corner.
Hong Kong
About as Hong Kong as you can get. 2011. Multitudes of cranes, no clue yet about the building going up. This site is near the Star ferry terminal on the Hong Kong side.
Chinatown
New Year’s Flower Market in The Year of the Pig. Pineapples are for good luck. Taken in January of 2008.
ACA
The Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL. I was a Master Artist for three weeks in Oct. 2007, with two other Master Artists and a dozen students each. Wonderful place, wonderful sense of a community of artists. Lots of great photo ops of things I usually don’t get a chance at. Where I live the manholes don’t get covered in sand.
Assisi again
I teach fiction writing at the Art Workshop International in Assisi, Italy, every summer. The stones in Assisi, whether on walls or streets, are irresistible.
Assisi
Assisi is full of beautiful sights. I loved the shadows on the wall and the bright color of the flowers that I spotted on an early morning walk.
New York City
Xmas in Red Hook, Brooklyn. 2009. I walk around New York a lot, and Red Hook is one of my favorite walks. I go there once a month to a reading series at Sunny’s Bar, for you Brooklynites. An industrial neighborhood, but someone decorated the trees.
