When I arrived here 2 weeks ago, I checked into the nearest hotel, and headed straight for the old town, hoping to find a place to stay for awhile. Well, for the next two months.
Within a half hour I wandered into a coffee shop and met Jason & Joanne, a dynamic Taiwanese couple who, of course, spoke fluent Mandarin. They’d spent a decade in NYC, so their English was great, too. It turns out they knew just the right place for me to set up my own studio in Lijiang.
Lijiang Studio is an artists residency and much more. Their projects have a connection with local village residents, from the family that cooks meals and shares living quarters, to the artwork produced by international & Chinese artists.
I visited the studio today to talk to Lisa Li about the mural projects she’s been coordinating there. Just in time – tomorrow she’s headed up to Kunming to work on a book documenting the Lijiang Studio murals.
Here’s the first thing you see as you walk in the gate: a giant green phallic symbol out of X-tra large beer bottles.
Photo from my blog hiatus:Mount Fanxipan looms in the distance from our hotel room in Sapa
Welcome to the new, improved Ebriel Blog. Move over Blogspot, hello WordPress! It’s been weeks since I’ve been able to post online, an eternity in Internet-time.
I'm an american artist with an Asian focus.
I paint sharp-witted women.
I print blue photos of disappearing places. Sometimes I work in Sydney, sometimes I work in Asia. You can keep up and connect with me on Twitter, and Facebook, and Flickr
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