dead ends

I think we spend a lot of time in life going after and then running away from dead ends.
people, choices, situations.
like those times, when doors open, and after tricking you into thinking that something was actually possible, they are slammed right back in your face
and all the hopes that you have built around that,
somehow ends up in an empty vaccuum

to find that hope and optimism again..
is hard.

I'm in Shanghai

I moved to Shanghai in March ~
and haven't updated much of my blog mainly because
1) I had no access to internet for the entire first month after moving into my new place
2) My blog is blocked in China!
3) I don't have a camera....yet

but...
I set up my studio between tears and heartaches and sleepless nights
I found out a way to access my blog too
I've started working on my art again, like never before
I have so much energy

The children said that my paintings looked like exploding heads!

I seriously love them.  I love sharing my creativity with children, their imaginations are limitless.  I can already picture myself being that kid, thinking of the world in so many shapes and shades and melodies.  I think there is a big part of me that will never stop being that kid.

To be fair, the one behind me looked like an "exploding head".

Encuentro in Sun Moon Gallery, Puli

A long journey.  

I live, I breathe.  

Art.  

Rise

When grief and depression hits you for a very long time - you don't know if there will ever be a day where you will come out of that dark, dark, dark hole.  when things hit a point where it can't go any lower, it will be the time to rise.

Rise
Oil on canvas
45.5 x 38 cm
2012, Taipei

Work in progress

Encuentro exhibition at Christy's Art Gallery