Creepy Monitor Lizards
Over the years reptilian creatures have been slithering their way into my art work making me think that maybe it’s time to feature a few – this time the Monitor […]
Category Archives: Asia
Textures of the Royal Tombs of Hue in Vietnam
A trip to the Royal Tombs of Hue in Vietnam. Decayed metal. Decayed metal. Metal door. Mischievous puppy. Painted wood panel. Graffiti on rust-coloured walls in TuDuc’s royal tomb.More graffiti on rust-coloured […]
Worship in the East
Worship in the East. The profoundly Buddhist people of Myanmar has worshippers making a circumnavigation of the Golden Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon. Golden deities in a Chinese temple in Singapore. […]
Geometric Patterns on Agra’s Mughal Architecture
The primary restriction on Islamic architecture in this part of India is that there be no images of people or animals. That leaves floral motifs, Arabic script and geometric patterns. […]
Inside Akbar’s Mughal Mausoleum in Agra, India
In India of the late 1500s, Akbar the Great* commissioned three magnificent examples of Indo-Islamic architecture: the walled city of Fatehpur Sikri near Agra, his father Humayun’s tomb in Delhi and finally […]
Itimad-ud-Daulah (Baby Taj) in Agra, India
This is the paradox of India, buildings so beautiful, and shit everywhere.” I am quoting a conversation I had with a woman who came into the washroom of the Baby […]
Chini Tomb in Agra, India
After an early morning at the Taj Mahal we negotiated for a tuk-tuk (as we called the three-wheeled vehicles) to take us around to a few other sites in Agra. […]
