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Accidental Silhouettes
For the past year I've been scrounging about for ways to represent silhouettes in my Cyanotype prints. And yesterday I think I might have stumbled on something with my pocket-sized Canon Ixus: From the windows of Kinokuniya cafe in Siam …
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Memories: House-painting in Haiti
An art student shows off the house he painted during an encaustic painting workshop I gave at Haiti’s National Art School (ENARTS) in 2003 Several of the students I met are now professional artists, like Nixon Leger who has moved …
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Divine Inspiration in Bangkok
Silom Road has airline offices on the verge of extinction, faded “antiques”, and rapidly ageing girls in its tiny yet world-famous Patpong district. But it also boasts Bangkok’s biggest and most colorful Hindu temple. Down the soi lies another kind of …
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Printing Singapore
There’s a lot more to Singapore than its famous restrictions on gum-chewing and jaywalking (and its other, less-publicized laws against racial slurs). It’s a great city to show art. Singapore’s infrastructure and incomes are in good shape, and art is …
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The Lost Staircase
Lost Print: A retro staircase spirals up the side of a mansion in Cambodia Cyanotype Print on 100% cotton French paper, A3 size including borders, #1/20 Edition Varie, 2006 One afternoon I rode on the back of a motorbike up …
21 Essential Links for Independent Artists
Here are some people who have helped me in my quest to be an independent artist. They range from artists to creative entrepreneurs who are shaping possibilities undreamt of 10 years ago thanks to the internet, like: 1. Chris Guillebeau, Creative …
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Risking it All: Painting [Hong Kong]
All dressed up to paint at the Venetian Macau, 2007 RISKING IT ALL A few summers ago I was still learning how to breathe Hong Kong’s polluted air and wondering what the hell I was doing there. I had left …
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Interview: The Creative Life
Entry to The Artists Place, the studio where I’m currently working in Bangkok Cynthia Morris at Original Impulse recently interviewed me about how I manage to live this crazy creative life that I do. We talk about paper, people, places, …
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Sapphire Geisha
Image Used With Permission From Beauty And The Bath Geisha Hair Gallery This geisha’s photo could have been printed on postcards or sold to a private client. She was taken by a professional studio photographer. Cyanotypes were an affordable way for …
Brutal and Beautiful
I’ve just backed up my laptop and rediscovered forgotten images. Some Thai boxing photos from a week in Hua Hin, 2005: Low light photos with no flash turn a brutal scene into a beautiful one. Colors and highlights are painted …
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