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pkchan wrote:

請問DAVID﹕牆上的畫是什麼東東，是纂刻還是圖案。

Zhoudan wrote:
好像是一块纺织品。看了照片上这副画，我突然想到，其实可以去买几个镜框，剪几块有特色的布镶进去，挂在墙上就是很好的装饰品。

David Shen wrote:

但为纺织品配框比较复杂，条件之一，不能让它碰到玻璃， 否则日久易生霉变。所以要用盒子式的有一定深度的画框装。此处就是这样的盒式框，叫 "shadow box",

David Shen wrote:
这画框内的作品确实是被褥一类的绣品，是一种贴绣(applique)，这件作品我没凑近仔细看（看刚认识的姑娘们都来不及，谁还管那个玩艺），但我知道它是一种中南美洲印第安人的贴绣作品。墨西哥南方至巴拿马的 KUNA族印第安人有种传统工艺叫作"mola", 针脚极为细密。请见：
http://thorup.com/molaindex_thum.html[/quote]

Pei Ling Haußecker wrote:
...走近一看,可不就是Congo的Swoowa族的Kuba Dance Skirt!这个是用raffia织的...

David Shen wrote:



I did not really step close to look at what was in the picture frame that day as I normally would (because I was feeling abnormal that day). But at the very first glance as we were looking for a place to sit down, the picture looked to me like one of those mola fabrics from Centural America.

Your link led me to search for this interesting "raffia grass" and found the following great pictures with incredible designs:

http://home.clara.net/adire/kubagallery.htm

These patterns bear great similarities to the designs on Chinese Bronze Vessels of the Warring States period, from which many of early Chinese silk textile patterns derive.

This is what I was talking about when I said 青铜器上的“回纹”和“雷纹”:
http://home.clara.net/adire/kubacloth20.htm
http://home.clara.net/adire/kubacloth3.htm

One common characteristic of these African textile pieces is that their designs are simple yet strong, color austere yet showing great harmony of black/brown and white, different from the bright-colored Centural American mola pieces.

David Shen wrote:

Hi, Steve, Yueyin, Kevin, chance, pk, Betty and Wenjer and all friends back home in China,

Just a quick note to let you know that Xiaoping and I enjoyed tea and wine and a great chat for more than 3 hours 3 blocks from the blue waters of the Pacific in the Sunset District near the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, I assume the same time while Steve and Yueyin were enjoying they chat and food.

I will post some photos of the food I had next couple of days. I assure you I had better food than Texas size steak. It is certainly going to be a top-quality menu on Betty's Gourmet City!

David Shen wrote:


Compared with these images, our Chinese art subjects and motifs such as the peach and bat and deer and dates and lotus seeds have become so "civilized" that they have lost a sense of vitality, they are no more than just a symbol for wishes and good luck. The funny thing is, for those who are already in good luck, they keep asking for more, that means they squeeze those who do not ask for too much out of any luck at all.

May the reader of this sily post have a balanced sense of good luck. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

David Shen wrote:
Just a quick note to let you know that Xiaoping and I enjoyed tea and wine and a great chat for more than 3 hours 3 blocks from the blue waters of the Pacific in the Sunset District near the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, I assume the same time while Steve and Yueyin were enjoying they chat and food.

Lesley McLachlan wrote:
I received a surprise this Christmas, a card from a workmate. On it is a Santa Claus like no Santa Claus I have ever seen (or noticed) before. I am sure the old man in the long red gown with the long white beard, handlebar moustache and the tall red Uncle Sam style tall red hat, and the apple red cheeks and black eyes red lips and yellow complexion is Chinese. He is standing in the falling snow surrounded by attendants: squirrel deer rabbit fox mouse and three birds (what are they? a bluebird a red jay and a ? perhaps they are North American?).

Xiaoping Fu wrote:

Kevin:

我们明天一大早就离开旧金山回去了。这趟旅行非常愉快，但也有不少遗憾。由于担心天气选择了坐飞机而不是开车，所以通讯和活动受限，没能与更多的朋友相见。最遗憾的是没有办法在俄罗冈停下来，去看看你的新居，和神交已久的老朋友面对面谈天说地。留下这个不满足，下次一定开车来。第一站就在你那里歇脚。然后我们结伴南下，去会David、Pei Ling和其他朋友。

小平

Pei Ling Haußecker wrote: