Out of all the places I've been to, China was the biggest culture shock -food, mannerisms, language. China is fascinating - so rich in culture and history and I was continuously discovering something unbeknown and foreign to me. It somewhere I can't explain, you have to see for yourself really.
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| Outside The Forbidden City |
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| Shanghai - indigo dyed textile swatches |
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| building in Shanghai |
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| Shanghai -embroidered binding shoes |
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| hand cut paper artwork |
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| Shanghai crazy paving |
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| Shanghai - window |
The 798 District is the art district in Beijing. Everything from painting, sculpting, building.....you name the process, it's being done. It reminded me of walking into a fully active art college - open doors venting out a studio where someone's spraying, the sounds of saws and drills from another studio, someone taking their work outside to dry off, someone taking a fag break..... It is an interesting concentration of design and art
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| table and chair set |
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| table and chair set |
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| reverse relief painting |
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| nice studio doors |
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| traditional china ceramic styled wall |
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| cute ceramic |
Beijing Olympic Stadium and swim centre in day and night.
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| Beijing - shopping centre. I like the crooked walls |
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| Beijing |
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| traditional Chinese building. Stylised roof with thick tiles, decorative wooden beams and square panelled grills |
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| Beijing - inside a tea room |
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| traditional Chinese building |
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| textured floor tiling |
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| shop - Beijing |
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| graffiti office front - Beijing |
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| Tibetan heavily embroidered textiles |
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| ceramic head |
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| tube station |
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| at the Olympic Stadium |
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| Beijing shop with laser cut wooden panelling |
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| Xian-paving |
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| Xian - doors |
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| Xian paving |
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