Sunday, September 28, 2008
Pojects and Gallery Show
I also will be displaying my second individual project in the gallery. My second individual project is about the change from old to new. I will be show to image of an aspect of old china and one of new china. How the people, culture and landscape of china is changing. On each image I will write in Chinese “way in” for the new and “way out” for the old. I am planning between 4-8 images, so 2-4 set of images. I planning display them in rolling poster advisement like the ones I saw in Shanghai. It would also go along with the idea for the gallery theme.
Partner Project
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Last day then Bye Bye China
The next day we wake up and got all check out and left for the airport. The flight was sorter then on the way there. My parents meet me at the Portland airport.
Saturday on Nanjing Dong Road
Gardens and Running Catching
Day 1 and 2 in Shanghai
Thursday, we leave the hotel at 8:50 and walked to the Shanghai Museum. Madelyn, Sam and I spend about 3 hours walking around the museum. The museum was full of ancient art, such as ceramics sculpture and coins. After that we all meet at the Shanghai Biennial. Sam, Madelyn and I went to an art district kind of like the ones in Beijing. After a nice taxi back to the hotel we went to a Chinese-Muslin restaurant that was tasty.
Tuesday Gallery and leaving SUDA
More Monday
Monday, September 15, 2008
Monday
Another early morning, 6:30 breakfast and we loaded the bus to Zhoucun. Zhoucun is an ancient trading center on the Silk Road. We went to a Cultural Festival, there were a few speaks and then an hours or so of sing and dance. It was outside and it was a sunny day… It was neat to watch but I couldn’t understand what people were singing about but it was a great honor to be invited to the Festival. After the festival we walked around the famous street looking into the shops and we got this crack like snack. We walked around for about an hour and a half then went to lunch at a nice hotel. I had a taste of some chicken heart. It some chewy but I think the weird or more interesting was eating fried locust or that’s what I was told.
The day is not over yet so i might add more... so stay tuned in. but i dont think you guys will be reading this because its 2 into the morning or you might.
Sunday the Funday
Friday and Saturday “work work work and play?”
Thursday
Wedneday In Jinan
Friday, September 12, 2008
Tuesday
Monday = meet the partner
Here we come Jinan
Great Wall
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Temple of Heaven
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
More Monday
More Monday
More Mondays
No worries mom!!!
Day 3 Forbidden Fun "what a neat blog title"
Exiting the Forbidden City you walk right in to Tian’anmen square. Tian’anmen square is very large with my government buildings around it. I was neat to be in Tain’anmen square after seeing it on the TV and learning about it. We did a little group project and we got a crowd of people around us. One of the police came and got people to move along. The security was pretty tiet, lots of police around.
We ended the night at a tea house near tian’anmen square. At the tea house we saw a traditional performance. It was fun. We saw a guy spine a large pot on his head and there was a lot of singing and playing of instruments.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
2nd day in beijing "art land tour"
Today we visited the art districts. First we saw the art district of Caochangdi. We meet the director/owner of the Caochangdi galleries. After the Caochangdi Art district we saw 798 Art District which was an old factory that was made into gallery spaces. Then we visited the Central academy of Art in Beijing where we meet one of the designers of the 2008 Olympics medal. We got to walk around then campus which was really neat. I got to see the sculpture department much may need a little jealous. It was a large covered courtyard and many large classes/studios. “Very neat” We went back to 798 and exploded some more. The last stop we made was to the studio of the professor we meet at Central Academy of Art and designer of the medal. His studio was neat and after we looked around it. His student took us all out to dinner at their favorite restaurant. The food was awesome and it just keeps on coming and coming. I think there were 14 or 15 plates of food and all were great.