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
Tag Archives: art
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.
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
At the Cultch Gallery
The Transience of Value
May 31
West wall
East wall
“The Transience of Value” collection at the Gallery at the Cultch (Vancouver East Cultural Centre), Vancouver, May 30 – June 24, 2017.
Photos: ©Lena Tan, 2017
The Transience of Value: one more run
Non-Transferable #3
“The Transience of Value” collection is showing at The Gallery at the Cultch (Vancouver East Cultural Centre), Vancouver.
“Works by Alex Forsyth, Shelley Rothenburger, and Lena Tan”
May 30 – June 24, 2017, opening May 31, 6-8 p.m.
Plum Blossoms
The sky is light gray, there is a dampness on the road, a bit of wind but no rain – it is just such a day and the wild plum in the backyard is almost in bloom.
Li Qingzhao: Song to the tune of “Pusaman”
Translation and artwork: Lena Tan, 2006
Li Qingzhao (c.1083-aft.1149) was the daughter of a respected scholar and official in Song dynasty China. Her husband was often traveling on official business, perhaps accounting for the recurrent theme of aloneness in her poetry, although the loneliness of women was a common subject for this form of poetry written to the tunes of popular songs. In 1126, the Song capital fell to northern invaders and the court retreated southward to establish a new capital in Hangzhou. Li’s husband died at this time and she was left on her own to relocate her household.
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Pixelated
carnival5
Greeting cards now available at Artrageous Pictures and Framing, 1256 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, B.C.
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frieze1
horizon4
This Is Not Normal
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Dreaming at the sun’s edge
Li Bai “The Traveller’s Road is Hard”
Translation and artwork: Lena Tan, 2003
Li Bai was born in Central Asia to a family outside the Tang artistocracy. He created a
rebel persona by exaggerating his eccentricities and writing a flamboyant poetry that has been called “strangeness on top of strangeness.” He was never accepted by his contemporaries in the capital, though his prodigious talent got him an appointment in the emperor’s court, from which he was eventually dismissed for frequent transgressions on the social conventions.
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