Born in 1957, he currently resides and works in Beijing.
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This innocuous biography is all that is listed on the artist’s website, along with a simple link to a Wikipedia biography; however even the information on the 28 page Wikipedia does not fully describe the complex personal history and passions of this remarkable man and artist.
Based on a couple of intriguing images and equipped with only a bit of knowledge about this artist I made plans to go to the Brooklyn Museum to see:
Interior designers are often asked for tips on how to handle issues of scale. Getting the scale and proportions right is often not obvious or necessarily easy; and the messages can be confusing.
“Should you use large furniture in a small room, or smaller furniture?”
“How large should pillows be on a sofa?”
“I want to use a pair of floor lamps – how tall should they be? And how large should the shades be?”
Now that I have dealt with the floors at my house, my next task was to venture into what for me is uncharted territory – the big box world of HOME DEPOT!
I need a lot of stuff and wanted to go see what the offering were – who knew HD was sooo big, and they have sooo much stuff? I guess pretty much everyone but me!
Make no mistake, I have no intention of becoming a ‘Litchfield County Gentleman Farmer’, however there is a delightful gang of baby goats and a bunch of chickens at the local (and locally owned) service station; a stop there to say hello to my new friends is one the first things I do when I go to my new very old house.
I am anxious to spend the night in the country, but before I move anything into my new house (including me) I am refinishing the floors. However, refinishing the floors is not a matter of a simple sand, stain and polyurethane. The floors are not the tongue-in-groove floors I typically see in my New York City projects, there are an entirely different animal. I need an expert… (more…)
Don’t be fooled by the calm and serious look on my face, after dreaming, yearning and fantasizing about a ‘place in the country’ for nearly three decades I am now the (seriously) proud, totally excited and somewhat overwhelmed owner of an 1835 Greek Revival farmhouse in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
The New York City subway system of 2014 can be a remarkably efficient way to get around the city; however even in recent history this was not necessarily the case.
When I first visited New York City as a young adult in 1976 I stayed in Times Square with my brother and a bunch of art students from the Midwest – it was thrilling!
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