Category: Asia
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Our view
Our view From our house on the mountain slope we see other green hills with distant houses and villages here and there. Further north are the high Himalayas of which we can see the part with the Trishul (7120 m) and the Nanda Devi (7816 m). This photo was taken in May last year on…
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Our house
Our house So there it is, our house in Kumaon, that I mentioned in last week’s post. You’ll need good eyes to find it though. It’s on the slope of the second hill, surrounded by trees. The photo below gives you a closer view. Photos of the week: Our house at Kasardevi, Almora, Kumaon, Uttarakhand,…
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An open forest
An open forest In 2011 we were building our house on a mountain slope in Kumaon, in the Indian Himalayas. From the place where I was staying to the construction site I would always walk through this open forest. I still pass through it regularly and still like it. It must be the gentle slope…
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Fondness
Fondness Which one shall we take? The food vendor smiles. The mother chooses. Love streams. Photo of the week: Gion, Kyoto, Japan 2008
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Sublime simplicity
Sublime simplicity The house: a floor with tatamis, sliding walls, a roof. Height of Japanese architecture. Walls slide open. The spectacle begins. Photo of the week: Katsura Villa, Kyoto, Japan 2008
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Painters and painters
Painters and painters When leaving TKM Warehouse, the Kochi Biennale venue where I had just seen Prabir Gupta’s installation (see last week’s post), I thought of the roadside painter’s shack in front of the warehouse. Two years ago it was there. Then I had peeped in and taken the photo above. I still remember the…
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Puzzling painting
Puzzling painting Not just a painting, a whole installation! A little paper on the wall is telling us: “Restore Icons: 1799, a Chassis from Paris Iconising Dalits and Blacks.” We know that the artist, Prabir Gupta, was born, lives and works in Kolkatta (Calcutta) and that he is influenced by the political activism in his…
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Anju’s dressing room
Anju’s dressing room Anju Dodiya had a whole series of works at the KMB 2018, that have a little photo of herself at the centre, almost like a selfie. The Biennale guidebook tells us: “In the ambience of an actor’s dressing room, with its row of double lights, the viewer encounters the artist/protagonist as a…
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A reminder
A reminder Name: Aaron Place of Birth: Cochin Age: 18 or 19 Sex: M Seller: Jan Dircx de Beer Buyer: Johannes Muller Price: Rds 55 Sold at: Cape Town 17.6.1687 Me, a Dutchman, looking at old Dutch names written on T-shirts hanging on a clothesline at the waterfront of Fort Cochin. Container ships passing in…
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The Kerala floods
The Kerala floods When it comes to site-specific installations the Bangladeshi artist Marzia Farhana has done a fine job with her work for the KMB 2018. The August 2018 floods in parts of Kerala had caused, apart from loss of lives, a lot of destruction of homes, crops and the natural environment. Farhana has made…
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