Did two visits to «Passion of Thai Modern Art» - an art exhibition at Siam Paragon with 81 art pieces from KASIKORNBANK's contemporary collection and another 127 sculptures and 93 paintings from the Bangkok Sculpture Center's collection displayed over 4 floors of space. The mix of Buddhism and Buddhist influences in the Modern Art of Thailand blended beautifully. The large «Dimensions of Life» by artist Panya Vijinthanasarn rises 1800 CM.  

22nd May 2008 - A walk about at the Art College / Institute of Fine Arts at Dhaka University... with Stein Naevdal.

SoFoBoMoSTART!

I've been procrastinatingbut finally have begun photographing for the SoFoBoMo project. I'll be photographing 2 Bangladeshi artists, Fareha Zeba who is a painter and her husband Saidul Haque Juise a paper sculptor and mask/puppet maker. I spent the afternoon at their home studio, talking over endless cigarettes cups of black tea and chilled beer.... I'd take a photo or two and we'd resume our banter.

A Black Hooded Oriole perched on one of the shrubs in their garden so we all went out quietly to watch and I got a few frames of the bird and a few of the plants in the garden.  There is a bush of [apparently] very hot chili pepperswhich are almost white in color - Juise refuses to let these be plucked because there are some tiny birds who come to feed on these. Don't touch! The peppers are for the birds, only!

The plan is, to photograph and record their daily life, casually, while they work and go about doing what they do.... creating works of art....and they do it beautifully. This project will [eventually, hopefully] turn into a small book with a collection of photographs, some background information about the artist pair, and some excerpts from our conversations...

The first few processed images of Zeba and Juise are posted in the SoFoBoMo Log file.