Knock Knock ? The Right Pink Christmas Prawn Door

While others shop for gifts,  tinsellate their way to Christmas bon hommie,  each year I make something to declare it open festive season on my front door. This year it is the Prawn, pink and top-aligned, to turn one’s thoughts to the table.  Inside two other prawns levitate like thought bubbles. Then, for dining out ( really dining in )on this theme, one can’t go past a plate of festive crustaceans.

  NB No Prawns were harmed in creating this work.

 

Floralities: Indicia of Elegance in Chiang Mai

Arcs of petals, extravagances of style and stigma,  umbels and umbels of singular flowers, born on trees or emerging from ponds and water jars, there is plethora of things exotically floral to be found by the side of Wats all over the old city of Chiang Mai. Singularly and collectively tripping the Treasure Meter. 

 

Universal Reason for Visiting Bangkok’s Museum of Contemporary Art

 While there are thousands of reasons each crystallised into objects of art, that like thoughts  milling on their aesthetics, argue that you should go to Bangkok’s brilliant Museum of Contemporary Art, this unlabelled and mysterious lacquer cabinet which can be found at the end of a worm hole, where a large tryptic presenting Heaven, Earth and the The Unfortunate Place can be admired,  or one could argue also mirrors the the three spatial dimensions, I suspect this cabinet contains the fourth - which might be Time, or something equally enigmatic. 

Wat Phan Tao in Late Afternoon Light

One of Chiang Mai’s many Wats, late afternoon Wat Phan Tao’s golden spires and golden stupor might well be holding up the sky, this is Tao of what happens here.