nearing afar: periodo azul
Frances Leung
I lolled by the beach at Club Med, let the moist sea breeze cleaned off the dryness and dust from Douz. Watching the east sky, onlooking the turquoise sea, I let minutes and hours sail adrift.
nearing afar: midnight in djerba
Frances Leung
To Douz we came from Djerba which is a resort island reached by direct flight from England. So eager to get to Douz, we didn’t bother ourselves to have a look around the city of Djerba. We proceeded right away with our car northward, granted it was already midnight.
nearing afar: thousand and million years
Frances Leung
In this very moment of the thousands and million years, I am here, in this singular space.
nearing afar: tea in hotel sidi driss
Frances Leung
It is a hotel praised greatly, and yet I was the only tourist in the café. The hotel café is an ancient troglodyte dwelling. It was once deserted, but recently given back to life by the movie Star War…
nearing afar: moonrise on douz
Frances Leung
Tick-tock, tick-tock, the darkening night blue from the east sky, was pressing down on the deepening red sun westward below the horizon.Eight o’clock in the evening, the moon was as bright as the sun. In this silver glistening wilderness, we were again the only beings moving, the only living breathing.
nearing afar: sunset on tsar tascine
Frances Leung
Tick-tock, tick-tock, the darkening night blue from the east sky, was pressing down on the deepening red sun westward below the horizon.
not too deep: the batanga channel
Frances Leung
Where am I?” Alice in her wonderland? Thumbelina in her world of miniatures? Or Micky Mouse in Fantasia?
wyng media award open call
(Hong Kong) WMA invites both photographers and artists worldwide to respond to the theme “Light”. WYNG Media Award (WMA) is a series of non-profit programs that spark discussions of important social issues of Hong Kong through impactful images, with a view to fostering positive change.
High Tides and Kelp Congress
(Norway) Lofoten International Art Festival will present a programme of High Tides spanning across five weekends throughout the LIAF exhibition month of September, including the Kelp Congress—an event exploring the artistic and cultural dimensions related to kelp and other macroalgae.
Dr. Yuhua Shouzhi Wang Art Exhibition Opens in Shanghai
Opening Reception: 1PM, May 18, 2019
Exhibition Venue: Shanghai International Cultural Exchange Association Gallery 上海中外文化艺术交流协会美术馆
Address: Floor B, East Hall, 1333 Nanjing West Road, Shanghai Exhibition Center 南京西路 1333 号上海展览中心东二馆 B 层
Hours: May 18-22 daily between 10AM and 5PM.
The paintings of Dr. Yuhua Shouzhi Wang are sending shock waves through the art world. Dr. Wang is a uniquely distinguished artist of exquisite skills and transcendental artistic conception. Her ink paintings are characterized by a divine and natural artistic conception. Her compositions are audacious and generous, with powerful energy expressed through the fluidity of the ink yet without a trace of the brush, exhibiting a noble style and magnificent conception filled with vivacious energy.
not too deep: aeoline sea – where do i go after this?
Frances Leung
“Oh, it is cold.” We had stopped descending but where the water stopped? “How far am I from the sea bottom?” I couldn’t tell as I couldn’t see any trace of it. Despite the blindingly bright daylight above, the underwater was gloomy and lifeless, like a graveyard at dusk.
not too deep: foreword
Frances Leung
My name is not Nemo. Nevertheless, the meaning of it, the fictitious characters of the same name have found me in this photo book; a journal of my diving since 1997.
dutch masterpieces at the MET
Dutch paintings of the 17th century—the Golden Age of Rembrandt, Hals, and Vermeer—have been a highlight of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection since the Museum’s founding purchase in 1871 . The exhibition In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met will bring together some of the Museum’s greatest paintings to present this remarkable chapter of art history in a new light.
