SCA Entry This Saturday: Birds Circle Gong Er

This is my "Wing It!" entry for the new show opening this Saturday, May 14th. Official opening time: about 6 pm at the SCA Gallery on Thomas Street, just north of 3rd, in Pomona, CA.

The Second Saturday Event

The SCA Gallery was absolutely innundated this past Saturday. My show went up with a Cal Poly faculty and student show in the rest of gallery. There was an event in the Fox theater down the block, plus the other openings during Second Saturday in the Arts Colony. The result was a fierce competition for parking and some gasping for air in the gallery. Nevertheless, some twenty or so friends braved these challenges. Ed, Julie, her husband, and Ed's daughter are in this picture.

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Labrang Monastery Prints at the SCA Gallery in March

Come to the SCA Gallery on Second Saturday, March 12, for a glimpse of an emerging set of color prints on the Contemplative Spaces of the Labrang Monastery in Xiahe, Gansu Province, China. These were taken on my fall trip to China where my interest in Tibetan Buddhist architecture has been rekindled. The show will be in the Members Gallery, a part of the main SCA Gallery. As with other Second Saturday openings, it will start about 6:00 pm. Join me then for refreshments and perhaps dinner later.

Dunhuang was the focus on my June show at the Gallery. Tibetan Contemplative Spaces is the theme of this show, which will be up for two weeks. The images are from the Labrang Monastery the largest Tibetan monastery outside of Tibet. I'm continuing to use the palladium printing process, but I'm also creating color prints from this fascinating area as well.

According to Wikipedia, ...the monastery complex dominates the northern part of the village. The white walls and golden roofs feature a blend of Tibetan and Han architectural styles. The monastery contains 18 halls, six institutes of learning, a golden stupa, a sutra debate area, and houses nearly 60,000 sutras. The number of monks has now recovered to over 1,000. The clean white wall and open spaces shift one's perceptive mode into the contemplative.

Portal to "Sense of the Past" Images

These are some images captured when I was in the Dunhuang area of China in 2005. They will be featured at the SCA Project Gallery in Pomona, Caifornia beginning June 12. This Blog is in support of that exibition.

The linked version can be found here. The links on this html version lead to sets of images from China, California and the UK. These are updated from time to time.

A post card also leads to this link.