Casa Luis Barragan

 

Tremendously sensuous, Casa Luis Barragan cannot be fully captured on camera though.  If there is ‘sexy’ architecture, surly this is among the best.  It is also one of the rare modern domestic buildings that are protected on the World Heritage list.

Gallery Visit, Mexico City

 

Amazing space inside Olivia Foundation, Mexico City with excellent contemporary paintings including those by Sabine Mortiz.

Music: Sly Sky by telecasted.

Visit

 

Exhibition Update

 

My latest work: Many Lives of Load-bearing is shown at Gallery 1313, Toronto from May 14-24.  Two outstanding photographic exhibitions are held there at the same time.  Come to see them if possible!

Many Lives of Load-bearing

 

Many Lives of Load-bearing

2025

15x16x37.5cm/6x6.3x14.8in (HxWxD)

Cement, steel nails, embroidery, fabric particles, acrylic paints and epoxy

They appear in groups and are seen in solitude to mark venerable gestures.

Columns rise, hold, and perhaps falter.  They stand with resolve, are built for weight and endurance.  But an objective is not a promise.  Time weathers and purpose eludes with age.  A column's strength may have its fragility foretold.  This work examines the lives of columns as support and symbol - of vitality, permanence, and their flickering existences.

To immense within and let water take over our eyes: it can be poured onto the pod and glide through the crevices to anoint the columns.

Not Necessarily ‘smooth sailing’...

 

Getting the artwork - Lives Beyond Loadbearing thought out and planning on mold-making are difficult.  However, it doesn’t warrant that every stop of the way to completion is challenge free.  Here is a juncture to make amends.

Fingers crossed; there are still processes to face up to including pigment adjustments, cement pouring and assembly. 

Yet, I’m enjoying the work.

Raw Architecture - Gau

Got this woodwork that demonstrates the very essence of architecture - delightful and effective piece of enclosure. It is a shrine box, gau as known in Tibet, collected in Shanghai years ago. The shopkeeper explained that this carving houses a deity for traveler or pilgrim on the road. My jade bear, posed inside the gau, is yet to be risen as deity.