22/03/2009

taste


Taste is a strange animal, mine is kind of omnivorous, if that's
the word, I loved the recycled beercan tuk tuks, & the naive
stucco pictures, & much of the 'vernacular'; there were skillful
copies of photos & other works that worried me.


Such exquisite refinement in some temples, as well as the
mosaics in Luang Prabang's palace (no cameras)
( & a Vientiane museum with an absolutely great black Buddha
in the rain bringing mudra ~ why no cameras?)
as well as the verve of some naive art: it's all food & drink.
& the faces, the people ! This young man a standout.

There's a jump between temple stencils & here, here or here.
Or is it just the focus ?

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