Halloween Madness

In Avondale Estates, GA Halloween is a close the street off and let the kids roam kinda town. The neighbors go all out and compete for Spirit Awards. Doug, my brother-in-law, installed a grave site, flying skeleton, smoke machine, and sound fx. He also lurked in the darkness in a gorilla costume and came alive to scare the too cool for school teens in their everyday street wear.


Theresa was a vampire princess.
If only I had seen this how to before working on Theresa!
But we did alright.



Noah was the Ghoast Rider. Doug did his make-up.
Yun was busy making a delicious soup and pizza for this little get together.

A little Halloween history:
My 2008 Pumpkin Design vs 2004 Pumpkin Design


Avondale Estates, GA 2008


Bushwick Brooklyn, 2004


Check out
Threadbanger: How to Make yourself into a Zombie
Make-up by our lovely Katie Pellegrino

Enlightenment Through Solitude (Winter in Beijing)

This winter I will embark on a new journey in China. The journey of "Enlightenment Through Solitude." The winters are brutal, so living a somewhat hermit lifestyle will help me get through some difficult things I have not dealt with fully. As part of my endurance project, I will continue to produce new work, writings, and make myself read some things I've been meaning to read.

Reading List for my "Enlightenment Through Solitude" experience in Beijing Winter 2008-09.

1) The King James Bible
2) American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
3) Riding the Iron Rooster, Paul Theroux
4) No one belongs here more than you. Miranda July
5)

Friends suggestions:
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1929)


I also decided to get some books on tape. I like being read to and the sounds fill the space, making cold, quite, winter nights seem warm.
On my Audible list:
1) Anna Karenina (sorry Krista! its huge and ran out of packing space, but i really wanted to hear the story)
2) Malcolm Gladwell's new Outliers
3) David Sedaris' Naked & Holidays on Ice

I have a growing WISHLIST too! Lets hope I can download from there.


Reading for when I return:
The Plum in the Golden Vase (3/5 written) David Tod Roy's Translation (93, 01, 06)
Jin Ping Mei original English translation The Golden Lotus (1939), Clement Egerton



As with any great laborious journey, I will celebrate with some decadent beach vacation for the Chinese New Year, marking the end of a chapter. I am enlisting a crew to ensure help me celebrate.

Contact me for details.

ps
for those of you who have not received news of Henry and I's break up, Henry ended things with an "I'm not ready" and since I have found new inspiration and have a lot of gratitude for what seemed at first to be bad news. I am looking forward to taking a leap into my future with an new found eagerness to see what is next.


Don't be sad, it is afterall just another chapter. And in all fairness, I wouldn't have gotten to Beijing if it weren't for my interlude with Henry. I had compromised too much to be with him, hoping he might surprise me. Well, he just confirmed all my fears and I can confidently move forward without him.

Return to NYC (at least for now)

IF YOU ARE READING THIS,

first, thank you for caring;

second, come to Vol de Nuit 6 pm - 8 pm
Thursday for a reunion with me & Henry!

148 W 4th St
New York, NY 10012
(212) 982-3388


The tour home began in Beijing. I traveled to Shanghai, flew to Atlanta, drove to NYC, Newport RI, & Boston. Still reeling from the process.

Now Im getting my bearings, settling some business, and looking to take care of plans for the upcoming year.

Hope to catch up with friends while Im back, so please call me or email.
Lets make a date!

XXX
Su

Back In The Heartland Again (sorta)

I'm coming back home!

This is a funny video my friend Mia sent me that is a totally funny take off of Sex and the City I wanted to bring home. Mandarin with an American accent and cross cultural translation issues with naming.

Hilarious.



CALL FOR TRAVELERS & COLLABORATORS

Looking for people who want to travel around China by train (or around Asia in general).
I have a documentary idea that would be great to discuss, as well as,
just documenting the travel and experience.

email me with any interest or ideas!





The fall is still uncertain, but I am playing around with a couple ideas.

1) if all goes smoothly with subletting and apt fixing...
Fly to Seoul meet Henry, then Busan for the Busan Biennale 2008 in early November.
The Biennale ends 11/15.
Then settle into Beijing new apt and studio.

2) if there is more work to do...
Stick around until late Nov. then fly directly to Geneva then follow Henry back to Beijing.

End of November, the plan is to fly to Geneva to meet Henry and his parents and spend a few days in Chamonix together. Then back to Beijing by early December just in time for the long hard winter.

Trip 2: Week 16 Final Days of Summer

Taping, CaoChangdi Studio (2008)

What I Did This Summer...

1. I saw and experienced the Beijing Olympics Mayhem in all it's Spectacle and Splendor!

2. Did a art residency at Art Channel Beijing & made new work

3. Spent QT with Henry

4. Met wonderful new people

5. Learned more about China

6. Committed to a studio for a year


Some Favorite Places to See in Beijing:

1. Laitai Flower Market at Lady's Street, 9 Maizidian Xi Lu, 6463 6554

2. Guanyuan Flower, Bird, Fish, Insect Market, NE corner of Fuchengmen (down from Lu Hsun Museum), 6616 5509

3. Houhai Lake/Drum&Bell Tower Area


Places to Still Seek Out and See:

1. World Park

2. Laoshan Velodrome

3. Lomo Flagship Store, 9 Longtoujing Jie, 131 2691 0483

4. Burton Qiaobo Mellow Park, 6 Shun'an Lu, Shunyi, olli@mellowparks.cn

5. A brand of Chinese Traditional Medicine, Tongrentang, 24 Dashilan Jie, Qianmen, 6301 4883

6. Maybe Mars, local record label shop, 31 Dongmianhua Hutong (east off Nanluoguxiang), 5149 1662


Local Folklore:
6 is a lucky number for artists and intellectuals.
8 is the lucky number for everyone.
9 is the lucky number for the emperor.