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Fei/飛

Two-color Gocco screen print on 4x6 inches arches 88 fine printmaking paper.
40 copies are available.
Will be available at Art Bazaar on June 2nd and 3rd, or email me if you are interested!

Fei means "fly" in chinese.

I found these leaves in my backyard. They have very nice golden color with ineresting form which almost looks like feather to me. The combination of cherry blossom and chocolate color is for celebration of spring.

San Shui/山水 no.01_3-stone rule

Two-color Gocco screen print on 4x6 inches arches 88 fine printmaking paper.
34 copies are available.
Will be available at Art Bazaar on June 2nd and 3rd and Esty.

San and Shui literally mean mountains and water/rivers in Chinese.

This early spring I was in this famous dry garden in Kyoto. My dear friend Hiro and his gal tried to explain to me the layout of stones. They are always 3 stones in a group and creating a perfect triangle. It meant to be creates various views when you are standing in different locations. It has such calm and quiet quality. ....

Art Bazaar

I am going to this Art Bazaar which organized by Art start on June 2nd and 3rd. That means I have less than 3 weeks to produce all the prints. From now on, all the postings will focus on my work.

Have to go back to work now! *_*

Dear friends, good weekend!

Landscape of construction site

So my job today is cleaning up all the white plaster chips in the room. I was so excited to accept this task. I know I'm going to do something with it, so I played around with all these tiny chips....... 15 minutes after..... I found that I was suffocated with unbelievable dusty air,......., oops!! Silly me.

styrofoam cups and
paper plates landscaping
by Tara Donovan,
both images from Ace gallery

Tara Donovan

Okay, after seeing my embarrassing playground, let's see some real art installations by Tara Donovan. I saw the installations in Ace gallery probably two years ago.

They were so AMAZING!!
They are made of thousands and thousands of toothpicks, styrofoam cups, pencils, etc. See the great archives from Ace gallery!! and brief introduction from Hammer museum.

Snow man just came!

CL started to work on the guest bedroom today, he had to chip old paint off the wall and the ugly textured paint on the ceiling. Suddenly the whole room is filled of white debris. They look like snow to me, calm and quiet.

Am I crazy? I was having fun taking picture of this scene and at the same time CL is suffocated with dust.

Oh! No, Sorry!!

What's in my mail today?

CL bought me this camera. It's a very old piece. It's a SLR, but I can attach polaroid films or with regular 220 films. Doesn't it sound exciting? Hopefully no more blurring polaroid shots. Only thing is that it's damn heavy to me.

Pappa bear chair

I had hard time to take my eyes away from this chair at Modernica. Some how I couldn't found anything about this chair through the internet!! Anybody knows who designed the chair? It is a very expensive piece. We were at the shop enjoying all the nice furnitures but we ended up at the corner of discount books. Only things there which are within reach.

Both from book

"alexander girard designs for herman millers"

Alexander Girard

I got this book " alexander girard designs for herman millers" at Modernica. I was looking through all the discount books. Immediately it caught my eyes. I really enjoy this book, and later on I realized that I've seen some of works over here. I'm just never good at people's names. (Will that be easier if they are in Chinese, mm, maybe). Oh, patterns and textile, These are the things I am crazy for. I couldn't believe that they cancelled the textile class in my college, and I never got the chance to learn it.

A quick post _ new prints

I have to go back to do more prints now. Probably will show more stuff later.

from the top to the bottom:
sou sou x 有松鳴海絞
Makiko kudo
Aya Takano
Tabaimo

Saturday Night, exhausted!!

It has been a busy week! Tired! >**<
I am going to share two nice books with you before I jump into my bed. First, the pamphlet from sou-sou. It illustrates all different kind of tie-dye. I'm never a big fan of tie-dye, but the book totally changed my view of it. Check this, my photo doesn't show much!! The "bean tie" is amazing, it makes cutest small dots.

Second, it's a book called " drop dead cute". I bought this because of artist_Aya Takano, and my heart fall for Makiko kudo now. Totally it's more than cute things and characters. CL even thinks Makiko kudo got the soul of Munch. ( he was the one against buying this book :P)

My brain can't function well now. Hopefully I will be able to show some new prints of mine tomorrow. Also I have one more amazing book to share.

Darkroom is ready now!!

Finally darkroom is ready now, but I'm going to Kappe's complex party tonight.
Have a nice weekend!

both from fornarina sample sale o6'

It's me? or not,

Starting from high school at my tender age, I obsessed with everything in black. Nothing is cooler than black and white to me. Even now black is like chocolate to me, so addictive. But I don't buy that many black after I moved to LA. I wonder what have been changed??
I got these colorful flower pattern outfits last year, haven't gotten chance to wear them. Can't help asking " it's that me? who brought these outfits!!

new purchases from fitzue's warehouse sale
fabric is from sou sou

I'm anxious and thrilled

First, I'm going to here on June.
Second, I have a potential project in this building.
I must work as hard as possible!!

Can't talk too much now because too distraught. Just learned this word from this movie.
It’s better than a comedy. I hope I used it in a right way.
(somehow I have trouble with sizing of texts. I gave up for now. I hope this is not too disturbing.)

Good night!

top: watercolor sketche
bottom: our big toy_enlarger

What I have been doing lately? Part Two

Water color sketch is really fun to do everyday morning. It's like a everyday routine for me after the breakfast and yard work. Right! I do yard work everyday. We are so happy with the "California Wild Flowers Seeds",... everything grows so nicely. So I just got a new pack of seeds, we want to plant some more happy poppies in our back yard.

Our big toy _Enlarger has arrived. But we are so not ready for the dark room, we have to do some Autocad stuff this week. And yes, I will be a Cad monkey this week.

I admire them!!
*Karen gelardi
*Piano Nobile

Pictures from CL

Flickr Pool

This week I got some sentimental moments. A couple of emails from london and a song from Taiwan brought up all the emotions. I eased my strangle mind by soaking in the pool of flickr.

Some are from CL_ not too sweet pictures; coldness and emptiness of our neighborhood.
Some are from hometown_
zabu
I feel like to fly back home now!
daydream time!
Some are from Japan_
sweeter than a cream puff!!
new fiction I'd like to read
Some are from portugal_
candies for my eyes!!

Sleep tight for thoese friends are across the Pacific Ocean, and the rest, let's enjoy this sunny Sunday morning.