Hazy caked-eye greetings from the land of post-celebratory, self-induced ethanol poison recovery. The Lanna Style International Design Workshop at the Faculty of Fine Art at Chiang Mai University is done and this was celebrated in the true fashion of chaos that has become wont and custom in the past two weeks. As promised in my presentation yesterday, a more succinct summary of my jittery rambling is here for your perusal, critique and eventual polemics. More pictures of the prototypes will be posted once the photos are taken for the catalogue. gimme about two weeks…

Über-props to my fellow doodlers and nocturnal voyageurs of the Chiang Mai underworld, especially Ofer and Lek, Masamichi, Chikako and their assistants Paek and Atsushi. I want to write something sincere and heartfelt but fear trite cliché would surely result. Perhaps sleep is a better idea…
So here’s what yesterday’s talk would have sounded like if I wasn’t paralysed with irrational fear, although it’s still quite rough. Forgiveness please.
if you were at the museum yesterday and didn’t notice my stuttering mouth or shaky hands, forget I mentioned it…..Cheers.

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Alright, now that I’ve spoiled the fun for the space babies, we might as well clear a few more calcium dustbunnies from the closet regarding the hypotheticals series. This was also written as a supplement to an institutional application in *****, also to which I was not accepted. I’m starting to see a pattern here.
After exhibiting this series a few times in Europe, allthewhile obstinately refusing to divulge any information relating to the symbolism, I feel a bit guilty just throwing the whole thing on a blog post, but hey, that was then and this is now.
This post also may dissapear suddenly…

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This is the rundown on the basic themes of the series. It was written as part of an application to ****, *****, *****, to which I wasn’t accepted, although the painful process of cajoling abstract themes into relatively succinct linguistic snippets has left us with this rambling amble through the creative process. I’m still not sure if I want to share this, thinking it may kill some of the fun, so this post may just dissapear one day.

Anyways, here you go….

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