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Nowhere near here: New lens based work from Texas

admin — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 03:58:12 +0000

My most recent work I did at the MacDowell Colony in last summer will be exhibited first time at Fotofest in Houston. The show opens March 10th and will run through April 24th. This show is curated by Toby Kamps and Michelle White from the Menil Collection. Here is the list of all the artists in the show.

Chris Akin
Adam Boley
Logan Caldbeck
Santiago Forero
Mimi Kato
Ivete Lucas and Otis Ike
Wura-Natasha Ogunji
Nancy Newberry
Mike Osborne
Walker Pickering
David Politzer
Kelly Sears
Clarissa Tossin

One of the artist, David Politzer, was also at Roswell Artist in Residency Program with me in 2008. The opening is on March 10th, from 6 – 9pm. If you are free on Thursday night in Houston on March 10th, please stop by. I will be there.

GRAM installation photos

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:28:20 +0000

Here is more images from GRAM installation.

people viewing my work

installation view from inside

installation outside view

installation at night, courtesy photo: Alexander Paschka

Trip to Awaji Island

admin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:41:24 +0000

I took a over night trip with my parents to Awaji island which locates off the coast of Kobe. The world’s longest suspension bridge connects Awaji and Kobe (main island), and it was my first time to drive on it. My parents wanted to go to Awaji to eat “Hamo” fish which is in season right now. I really love small fishing villages in Japan. They have depressing looking in general, which give me some kind of nostalgia and leave good amount of bitterness in my mouth.

Fising village

Kani

We walked around and found a crab on a step of stairs to a shrine. He was so mad at us (since my dad was poking him with stick) and made hissing noise with bubbles coming out of his mouth. We played with him for a while. Next day after the feast of Hamo fish ( we nibbled everything even bones and heads…. good..), we drove around the island. Here is the real “bridge to nowhere” which I found on the island.

Bridge to nowhere

We also visited a temple designed by Architect Tadao Ando. I heard so much about this temple but it was cooler than I expected. I guess something happened to the old original temple (fire, earthquake or some kind of damage?), and they built a new contemporary one underneath a water pond. I do like Ando’s architecture and was very curiouse how he did it to spiritual institution. I couldn’t take any pictures inside, but it was really amazing experience. If you do ever go to Awaji, go here.

Honpuku-ji

Gila national forest

admin — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:42:31 +0000

Gila mountain view

Jimmy and I took a little trip to Gila National Forest. I went there in March last year and fell in love with the scenery. It locates in West of New Mexico and has a lot of strange rock formation. There are many hot springs there too so maybe the land is volcanic formation…?? Last March when I was there, my friends and I tried to find a hot spring by a river bank. We got a direction to hot spring at ranger station and it was like this. “Take trail #38 by the river. Do 2 river crossing by following the trail. After the second river crossing, find a strange rock formation and dig under the rock. You will find a hot spring there”. Usually hot springs are right under the rock already been dug up, but we went there right after the flood and everything was gone. So we dug up the hot spring. The hole was too tiny for us to get in but it felt good on my feet.

Another attraction in Gila is a cliff dwelling. Just amazing human history.

Jimmy and dwelling

After leaving cliff dwelling, we find a goat that had just gave a birth to baby goat. Placenta is still hanging.

afterbirth

St. Patrick’s Day Peeps cake

admin — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:45:38 +0000

green peeps for st. patrick