Living in warm wet Asian climes, you get used to geckoes as friendly roommates. We usually have one or two flitting across our walls at nighttime.
My mom recently came to visit and would jump each time they'd scuttle out of our storage closet. Next year she needs to stay longer on Lamma, to get used to them!
It's been a week of dancing monkeys and Korean control-freaks, headaches brought on by toothaches, and difficulty drawing. Next week's gotta be better.
Sticking with the "Korean" theme, here's a photo of Roy & me reflected in a "V-twin" in Seoul, 2004.
This is probably the most "Shanghai-poster" style of the series, the most derivative in terms of style.
All the names written around the heart are boys' names. Reference for the heart cross-section came from a Grey's Anatomy book.
Too many women let worries about dress size control their lives. I drew this after thinly-veiled criticism of my recent eating habits from a friend.
It reminded me of another friend - even more neurotic about what she put into her mouth and how she burned it off - who competed with everyone around her. She was constantly comparing her fitness and every physical attribute with other women.
When I've let their words get to me, I realize that the criticism they dole out is nothing compared to what they impose on themselves. It's sad that they turn the simple sensual pleasures of eating into a guilt-filled battle for control over themselves and others.
In progress: one of the columns we marbled in recent weeks.
Photos of finished columns will be posted once they've removed scaffolding and directors have taken photos. In the meantime, I'm back in HK and working on getting more work. Ah, the freelance life....
your typical "mirror autoportrait" shot - with hard hat.
The guys working outside had a great solution to the summer heat: cut off the brims of straw hats and tape them onto the plastic hat required onsite, for shade and skull protection at the same time.
Marbling the red base of a column. You can see the bamboo scaffolding we worked on every day, 50+ feet above the escalators below.
photo by Joanne
Two men with livers of steel: they'd have 8-10 pints every night, then be up for breakfast at 7 the next morning.
Great guys to work with - both from Nepal, they've been in HK for many years.
