CHINA | Saturday, 2 May 2015 | Views [492]
What an exhilarating moment on Thursday afternoon when the students installed their amazing bamboo pieces. Three distinctly different art works accomplished by 7 students: One drifting quietly in the wind hanging from a bridge, another describing relationships ... Read more >
Tags: bamboo installations, caa, departure, kenzo kuma
CHINA | Friday, 1 May 2015 | Photo Gallery
Bamboo, student work, teaching art
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CHINA | Wednesday, 29 Apr 2015 | Views [423]
Our day began with a struggle to create an evenly lit space in which to photograph Rob’s final works. He will be leaving all the drawings here in China, taking his sketches and preliminary drawings back with him to New York. Our hotel room is fairly ... Read more >
Tags: bamboo, fluid plans, gifts, laundry, lingyan temple, packing, tea, vegetarian food
CHINA | Tuesday, 28 Apr 2015 | Photo Gallery
CAA campus, Wang Shu architecture, trees
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CHINA | Tuesday, 28 Apr 2015 | Photo Gallery
final line/plane pieces, beginning bamboo site-specific work
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CHINA | Tuesday, 28 Apr 2015 | Views [347]
Our last week begins with very warm weather, tough air quality, and a sense of familiarity tinged with that poignancy of approaching departure. It is a relief to be back in our hotel, doing laundry, and getting genuine greetings from the staff. Rob plunges ... Read more >
Tags: bamboo material, fujian tea, lacquer painting, studio visits, warm weather
CHINA | Monday, 27 Apr 2015 | Views [522]
After three weeks of teaching and living in our hotel in Hangzhou, we splurged and went away for the weekend to Suzhou. This city is one of the fastest growing cities in this part of China, if not in all of China. The seat of local government in its ... Read more >
Tags: couple retreat garden, humble administrator garden, i. m. pei suzhou museum, local life, suzhou, suzhou museum
CHINA | Monday, 27 Apr 2015 | Photo Gallery
old town Suzhou, Couples Retreat Garden, Suzhou Museum, I.M.Pei Suzhou Museum, canals in Suzhou,
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CHINA | Friday, 24 Apr 2015 | Photo Gallery
shops, scenery
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CHINA | Friday, 24 Apr 2015 | Views [324]
Morning walks to run errands, which might be buying a hatchet for splitting bamboo, or looking for wire cutters, often end up at the early lunch in the faculty cafeteria. This is located in the public services part of the hotel we are staying in. There ... Read more >
Tags: abstraction, local wandering, teaching
CHINA | Thursday, 23 Apr 2015 | Photo Gallery
West Lake, Downtown Hangzhou
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Tags: downtown hangzhou, residential, street cat, west lake
CHINA | Thursday, 23 Apr 2015 | Views [284]
16: Transition from Rectangles to Planes to Bamboo Poles
It rained like the dickens for part of the night and our waterway is back to muddy greenish. For the past several days there has been more English speaking at breakfast than ever before, ... Read more >
Tags: assignment 2, bandung conference, planes of paper
CHINA | Thursday, 23 Apr 2015 | Views [415]
We finally gained access to the Bauhaus Collection here on campus. It took a couple inquiries to find out when, if ever, the place actually opened to the public and if there was anything in it beyond time lines and photographs. Turns out that a small ... Read more >
Tags: basketball, bauhaus at caa, being other, crowds, downtown hangzhou, traveling solo, west lake
CHINA | Monday, 20 Apr 2015 | Photo Gallery
scenes, community, alleys, merchants
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CHINA | Monday, 20 Apr 2015 | Views [372]
The day begins with the bad air headache, windows closed, yet a good sleep. It is obvious that people here have accommodated the shifting quality of the air they breathe, just as they accommodate the smell of sewage, the new towering buildings and disintegrating ... Read more >
Tags: air quality, asian mind, decrepit but good, eating out, generosity, local culture, shopping, vegetarian with pork
CHINA | Sunday, 19 Apr 2015 | Photo Gallery
Wushan Square, Wu Hill, West Lake, Crowds
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CHINA | Sunday, 19 Apr 2015 | Views [464]
The public lecture on American Sculpture was well attended. From the number of cell phones out taking pictures of the images, it seemed there was real interest or at least curiosity about some of the art. The relaxed atmosphere at dinner afterwards was ... Read more >
Tags: apple, crowds, cultural patterns, hangzhou, social life, targa nuts, west lake, wu hill, wushan square
CHINA | Wednesday, 15 Apr 2015 | Photo Gallery
walk on the wild side, West Lake, country dinner
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