With R. at the Bayon during his Easter visit.

Old photo, forgot to post it!

New Work

Now for some better news, I've been working on three styles of cyanotypes lately ~

Decorative cyanotypes painted onto silk organza:


This is the Chinese symbol for "Eternity/Eternal"


Cyanotypes printed onto raw silk (images from my paintings onto plastic sheets and miscellanea like flowers and chili peppers):


Apsara Hands [Pluck Me]

And more traditional cyanotypes on cotton-based watercolor/printmaking paper, though with extra water to give a more luminous, unpredictable effect:


Spire, from the Bokor in Blue series, decorating the atrium at the Four Seasons Bangkok throughout August 2006

Update

* Last night the residence across from where I do yoga twice a week was robbed, ten minutes before we arrived.

* Two friends of my roommates were robbed from their bicycles this week. One had her bag snatched after she was pushed off her bike, and the other had a gold chain ripped from her neck.

Hopefully this rash of robberies will be over once debts from World Cup gambling have been paid off.

Siem Reap's usually hailed as crime-free compared to Phnom Penh, but of course it's not. Nowhere is. As a good friend says of her hometown, Johannesburg: "It'd be Eden without the crime."


My neighbor - a lovely 50-something French lady who reminds me lots of my mom - was robbed last night at 10:30pm near the Centre Culturel Francais.

Three guys on a motorbike - without their lights on - pushed her bike over and grabbed her bag. Though she naturally doesn't expect to retrieve any cash (she'd just gotten her rent $ from the bank), there are a few items she'd like returned if possible:

~ Her passport

~ USB stick with all her work from the past several months (she's a volunteer with a local fair-trade organization)

~ Credit Cards (though it's common in Hong Kong for locals to have western names, it's mostly unheard-of here)

~ 3 pairs of glasses

~ Personal notebooks

If anyone has any information they can call her friend Linna Sim, who speaks fluent Khmer and English: 011 - 76 - 62 - 76. I'm broadcasting this regularly on my show.


We figure World Cup fever - and the partying that accompanies it - makes this kind of thing more likely at the moment. Her rent money was probably spent on World Cup betting, beer and bargirls. As some of the other items aren't worth much in financial terms, she's hoping to get them back.

A friend the other day dropped his phone somewhere on the way from his gate to the main road. When he went back to find it a few minutes later, a neighbor had already taken it.

He called the phone with a Khmer friend. The neighbor - whomever they may have been - refused to sell the SIM card back to the guy. "You've gotten my phone for free, but won't sell me back my own SIM card?" Could've been fear of discovery at the expense of a few potential bucks.

More mysteries every month.