Fireworks on the street
cakes steaming over the stove
new pajamas
grandma’s taro pudding
lion dances and white cabbage
tea and melon seeds
the smell and feel of new banknotes
old Singapore
so long ago
New Year
Category Art
I see patterns
Artist Trading Cards, 2.5″ x 3.5″, envelops, marker pens. 2017.
More envelop art.
Envelop Art
Artist Trading Cards, 2.5″ x 3.5″, envelops, coloured pencil, marker pens. 2017.
What to do with used envelops? Colour them!
Pre-Rose Garden
Rhododendrons in bloom – University of British Columbia Rose Garden.
Photos: Lena Tan, 2018
At the Britannia Art Gallery
Opening night snacks
Micromeditations
Artist Trading Cards by Lena Tan
October 4 – 27, 2017
Britannia Art Gallery
Photos: Lena Tan, 2017
Micromeditations
Artist Trading Cards
by Lena Tan
October 4 – 27, 2017
Opening Reception:
Wed., October 4th, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Britannia Art Gallery (located in the library)
1661 Napier St., Vancouver, B.C.
Hastings & Hawks
Mural by Mark Illing, for Vancouver Mural Festival 2016
Muralists: Alison Woodward and Graeme McCormack, for Vancouver Mural Festival 2016
Muralists: Tidal Recall, NOMADIC ALTER NATIVES (Nelson and Xochitl Garcia-leal), for Vancouver Mural Festival 2016
Soul Gardens, 2011. Muralists: Jordan Bent, Indigo, Scott Sueme, Melanie Shambach, Take5. Researchers: Wayde Compton, Lani Russwurm, Anne Marie Slater, Sid Tan and Cease Wyss. Project Coordinators: Irwin Oostindie, Lianne Payne.
Co-ordinated by the W2 community media-arts centre, “the project draw[s] heavily on individual and shared narratives within founding DTES cultural groups including the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam Nations, and African, Chinese, Japanese and European settlers. In addition to a large public mural, Soul Gardens will create a dynamic online interface inviting individuals to share recipes, stories, photos and other information about how food has played a role in shaping their experience of Vancouver.”
Photos: Lena Tan, 2017
City of Mirrors
downtown, food trucks, CBC noon music, Murray Porter, sexist blues, Trump and Cosby, manufactured dissent, in or through the mirror… still Vancouver
Microsoft facade
Photos: Lena Tan, 2017
More Vancouver more summer
North end, Granville Bridge
False Creek north
“Marking High Tide.” At low tide.
False Creek north
Looking south from Granville Island
“Waiting for Low Tide.” At low tide.
Photos: Lena Tan, 2017
So Vancouver so summer
jazz fest, sunburn, Canada Day, Sylvie Courvoisier, prepared piano
False Creek from Granville Island
Granville Island
Granville Island, Ocean Construction
Granville Island
False Creek North from Granville Island
Photos: Lena Tan, 2017
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