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journal from a round-the-world art adventure

Twin cities

PAKISTAN | Monday, 1 Oct 2007 | Views [353] | Comments [3]

The twin cities of Islamabad/ Rawalpindi sit about 300 km northwest of Lahore on the edge of both the NWFP [North West Frontier Province, a rag tag collection of government control and autonomous tribal areas] and Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan’s ... Read more >

Tags: on the road


Shakeel

PAKISTAN | Monday, 24 Sep 2007 | Views [368]

Shakeel is fifteen years old. His father, Mr. Haneef, is the chowkidar [caretaker] at the hostel I stay in. In any case they live together in a small flat at the back of the complex with their mother, two brothers, Shan and Adeel, age 7 and ... Read more >

Tags: people


I want a SQUIRREL!

PAKISTAN | Monday, 17 Sep 2007 | Views [278]

Regrettably, for the animal involved that is, the principle ingredient of the brush used by miniature painters are hairs taken from the tail of a squirrel. Preferably a young one, but given the speed and agility of all such animals any caught squirrel ... Read more >

Tags: markets


The second week…

PAKISTAN | Monday, 10 Sep 2007 | Views [274] | Comments [3]

Classes have not begun, but the curriculum has been planned, as much as possible, and the 120 odd students met Saturday morning at orientation. Much of the time was given over to insisting that the students not smoke in class, and that medical ... Read more >

Tags: markets


First days

PAKISTAN | Monday, 3 Sep 2007 | Views [319] | Comments [2]

And so ends the first week in Lahore. It’s coming to the end of summer, so the heat is slowly abating, or at least I am acclimatising after that sudden jump from Melbourne winter. Of course what remains – 30 degrees at 9am – is still enough ... Read more >

Tags: people


Introducing...

AUSTRALIA | Monday, 23 Jul 2007 | Views [261]

In August this year I travel to Lahore to teach Printmaking and Drawing at Beaconhouse National University - Pakistan's first liberal arts university. This project has been generously supported by Professor Salima Hashmi, Dean, School of Visual ... Read more >

Tags: The Planning Phase


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