some fragments - 2008

the last day of 2008
i was glad it was snowing
just step out from my apartment

saw a man stood in front of the opposite building

perhaps waiting

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what do u miss?

c asked
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new york winter / the snowy day is beautiful

i said
just don't look down to dark muddy situation at your feet

k said

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yeah. finished the interview!!!

the first time i feel learning that much through a discussion

where do i want to go the most?

what show i want to see?

this one

 

 

sunday morning questions

prepare for an interview

a very good question about

if i would say my line drawings are the most sexual of all my art forms

and many others inspiring questions, thanks E.

birds' interpretation throughout the years

08 San Francisco

07 wan chai / HK

06 Helsinki

05 HK/Bangladesh

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what will be in 09? any birds...

or they are all gone from me

like the one in 2005

it was gone forever

Subway is New York

homeless people in the subway

they dont ask for money

they are the most quiet passengers

they just sit, and always sleep

their nasty luggages, smelly themselves keep people away

they are those who are most familiar with the city the subway

but they are strangers to all other people

under the blanket, they dont have faces

i dont know where are they going

what does holiday means to them?

do they go take a look to the big Xmas tree in Rockefeller center?

-- they lost sight

in which point of their life

they start their journey

like those rats in the subway?

the coldness can help

X'mas statement

artist's mental life is not easy

so take it easy

artist's daily life is simple

so make difficult work

artist's love is tragic

so forget it whenever u can
but not for holidays :> ...

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friends,
Merry Xmas!!!
love together in this Xmas
no matter how

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and i decide to work and work

love my work

Bobby Sham...Ordinary People

普通人(香港版) --- William
Ordinary People (Hong Kong) --- William

just know the website of 'Imaging HK' exhibition
http://www.imaginghk.com/blank.html

so I can see the works...
love Bobby Sham's photo


many ordinary person...very special
many special person...very ordinary

sunday night short story

phenotype

these single one...

what are they going to tell me?

sunday morning - a little mark

search for own fun

get the job done

in the silence of snow

life, love and tree

手寫板壞了很久；
now try again try again...
勉强寫了這些字；
then couldnt work anymore...

but the name of this book, i want to write here for long...
only can 手寫...




...keep writing, u will talk to trees soon...

her dance / her writing is the only one

Bamboo Blues -- by Pina Bausch

Music composed by Michael Gordon
From the writing of Emily Dickinson

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A rake in one hand

a pencil in the other

I draw a flowerbed

write a flower with one petal

weed a poem written between waking and sleeping

i make war on snails and adipose adjectives

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from "Nettles" by Venus Khoury-Ghata - Poems

thanks for M's book

photo exhibition - HK

my work in the show- The Blue of Distance

what it looks like what it feels like

"what it looks like what it feels like" by Beth Gill

ny times review

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/arts/dance/22gill.html?ref=dance

come, sunday

to draw is to think how to draw

counting all the possibilities

http://cally.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/from-sound-to-images/

David Byrne & Brian Eno
My Big Nurse

When the lake's on fire
With all the world's desires
When he shakes the stars above
When we lose the ones we love
When the seasons lose their grip
When the tightrope walker slips
I'm counting all the possibilities

When the past becomes the now
When the lost becomes the found
When we fall in love with war
When the angel fucks the whore
When the road we travel on
Takes us back where we came from
A million kinds of possibilities
For dancing on this lazy afternoon

In the comfort of the world
In the arms of my big nurse
From the science of the heart
To each animal and plant
Compact, relaxed- intact, give thanks
I'm counting all the possibilities
For dancing on this lazy afternoon

monday quotes

"i am a mendacious creature."

Kafka

"now i return to the burning house

but where is the place i used to live?"

Kan-ami

the quotes in Introduction to the Anthropology of Water, Plain Water, Anne Carson.

sunday story

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to The World's

Peace

to L

hope u write
like
the flow of river
the reflection of light

miss u, deer

from the window of my studio in Headlands

On Sunday(s), nothing to confess / Still Life

an exhibition of Giorgio Morandi, 1890–1964
in Metropolitan Museum of Art

sunday is good day to visit friend, hang out with friends
eat and talk, and eat and talk.... then work (maybe)
and read the past friday 'new york times'
(well, i am slow in reading, so one-day newspaper - i take three days to read...)
i am always behind...

though it is cold
but knowing friends are doing well
- the love ones getting together / getting married
i feel good

sunday
- always a day to have clear mind
it is the first day of a week, but always i feel it is the last day of a week
then whenever i look back the last week
- if it is clam, no fight, no argue, peaceful, and
to be inspired by someone or something
or give inspiration to someone

then, even getting one week older
it is fine

esp in these weeks, i learn that
i get rid of a strong desire for possession
- possess of someone or something
i get rid of being too rely on anyone or anything

- thanks for C's music, N' support.
and all those who love me, or once loved me

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Morandi said, there is nothing more abstract than the things we see in the real life.
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my still life photo

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We Love the One Who Responds to Our Question: “Who Am I?”

Jacques-Alain Miller: On Love

We Love the One Who Responds to Our Question: “Who Am I?”

some interesting articles

How do you explain the Obamania?

Sarah Palin: Operation “Castration”Jacques-Alain Miller

collection of some grammatical mistakes

and some corrections...

inspiring selections on Landscape and Narratives

Focused on varying degrees of narrative’s tenuous relationship with landscape
– from a totally constructed fiction to a non-linguistic approach – this selection explores the underlying ways we perceive and articulate the representation of space.

Walter De Maria: Hardcore (1969, 28 minutes, 16mm)
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: Atomic Park (2004, 9 minutes, DVD)
Amy Granat & Ann Craven: Moon Shadow, Part 1 (2008, 9 minutes, 16mm)
Gianni Motti: The Messenger (2003, 3 minutes, DVD)
Rosa Barba: They Shine (2007, 5 minutes, 35mm. Voice: Matt Didemus.)
Luis Buñuel: Land Without Bread / Las Hurdes (1932, 28 minutes, 35mm)

sunday morning - trees in the heart

this sunday morning, bad weather

if i cannot see sunshine in the morning(s)

i think about the good time with u

if it is raining in the morning(s)

i think about your sincerity
if it is cold in the winter morning(s)

i think about the clamness when u are writing

even it is cold everyday

i freeze
i am not afraid
--- i find peace

"i cant actually....tell a story, in fact i am almost unable even to speak; when i try to tell it, i usually feel the way small children might when they try to take their first steps"

--- a quote from performance, Kafka Fragments. (The Literary Muse)

maybe

i know i have to keep talking and talking through these pictures.

- in that sense, i am not a quiet person

though i don't know what i am going to say

maybe a lots. maybe nothing. maybe one sentence is enough

maybe a single word has already too much
maybe a language. maybe native one. maybe foreign one.

maybe a single grammatical error made can ruin everything

maybe thousands of vocabularies cannot be fit into to a particular moment of our conservation

what you/I want is very simple, indeed

Haruki Murakami in one of his prose, mentioned about squarrels -

they seems, have the whole life - just doing two things - running away from people and eating nuts

i imagine, if i also just doing two things in my whole life -- running away from people and doing art.... :>


but squarrels in nyc are different. they dont scare people at all

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those i saw in Union Square and around my apartment, they dont really hide


esp. this one (maybe not the same one, they look the same...) is used to come up to my window in the freezing rainy day. waiting for nuts.

The Literary Muse and BAM

The Waves - Virginia Woolf

The Duke Theatre http://duke.new42.org/events.cfm

the waves --- push and pull, up and down, appear and disappear, exhale an inhale..
u never being as youself speaking your own words
words from ones' mind, speak through the others' mouth
u are just a reflective image on mirror
happenings from ones' body, but sound generated by others
u are just the picture seen from a long distance


but after all, where is the writer? where is the writing, the wavy mind and body, her voice?
-- behind the conclusive backgroud projection (a video) of all the real time acting, reading, site-setting, sound-making and camcordering, i miss the writer.

-- a very sophisticated performance in terms of the skills and technical manipulation. But as a whole, it doesnt really grab u into the deep soul of The Waves.

NY times review : http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/theater/09mcge.html
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Les sept planches de la ruse (The Seven Boards of Skill)


http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=121

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Steve Reich Evening /
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=115

a house for falling

a video work by Ervin Babic in ISCP Open Studio
- a little piece of ham in shape of a house, thousand of ants

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if i can fall
i would fall
into nowhere

nowhere i am

as i am now here

if i fall
u would not know

they said i am strong

if i can fall

i would fall

into where u are absent

i said i am an idiot

idiot never know

what things go after they fell

if i can fall
let me fall into Terra incognita

on your map

畢竟 我說川流 便見川流

失語城堡和鞋底的風

他們告訴我
濃密的森林深處有一座城堡
我不曉得為何要去尋找
只是忽然有一天
我自覺已踏足在叢木包圍的小徑
成為一個過路人


我穿越一處又一處的自然空地
月光從樹丫透出
強烈的沉默感覺
不是有人不做聲
而是整個森林
吸收了所有聲響
包括它自己的


關於失語城堡的故事
卡爾維諾早言之甚詳
騎士進入沉默的中庭
馬伕牽走了坐騎
然後在大廳參與奇怪的宴會
──當啖食咀嚼與啜酒嘖嘖的聲音不再令人愉悅
晚餐便在無聲中結束
人們面面相覷坐著
無法交換彼此的經驗


誰說不可既？
訴說不可能
是疲憊所以焦躁
不安所以無眠？
其實是太多的表達
主動邀請了封閉
風拂素履
足下蠕動
是天地倒轉了
還是我在倒吊而行？
畢竟我說川流
便見川流

--- thanks for giving me a poem

就讓它沒有完成

drink more water

a rainy day
change the dining table to a drawing table

cook the bad mood
or act as someone else

obsessive-compulsive disorder

clearness, cleaness, tidiness...

smell-less, sound-less

maybe, all these are dangerous

as i obsess




sorry L,
i know the problem --
i am looking for perfection

to dance is to think...

the next step

the next day

the next summer
the next drawing

the next apartment

the next --
maybe not

the next --

always do

the next throb!

and, anything else? ...the next year

bless all the next(s)

a long way to go

a toy - 1st play

the first try on using a Rolleiflex MiniDigi AF 5.0

yes, i got a red one...

cannot imagine i am back to such low digital quality

anyway, i love miniature....

can this work?

reading glass with 3x magnifiers
i start using it for easier drawing

day time for work, night time for sleep
hope everyone i know work well and sleep well