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Somewhere in Yuen Long

Posted on September 17, 2014September 12, 2014 by eddietay in Monochrome

Sometimes I don’t know where I am.

This place is accessible via a walking or biking trail.

And you get to see a sinking village house.

My wife organizes these day trips for the family and I simply tag along… I’m fortunate that way.

I’ll go anywhere as long as there’re things to see.

I know for sure this is somewhere in Yuen Long.

And the village is accessible only via a boat.

It’s another way of life.

It’s a “can do” DIY attitude I need to learn.

He saw my camera but basically ignored me and went on with his work.

I’m trying to improve my Chinese.

Assuming I got that right, it says “the only human-operated bumboat in the whole of Hong Kong, from 6am till 11pm”.

My set up for the day was a Contax TVS II loaded with Ilford XP2 400.

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Singapore Speaks Monochrome

Posted on September 12, 2014September 12, 2014 by eddietay in About Singapore, Monochrome

Singapore is a work in progress, and the physical landscape never fails to remind you of this.

There could be cranes in the sky in built-up areas, and there could be views like the one below.

Occasionally, it gets a bit postmodern, like this:

The inside wants to be outside.

Our desires/appetites/wants/needs are very well structured and catered to.

Everything is for sale.

Cities are places where appetites are met.

Appetites transcend national boundaries …

Pig organ soup, anyone? It’s actually quite yummy.

Waiting.

Doing.

Working.

Cooking.

Buildings are structures of desires.

There’s ambition in the architecture.

These are homely desires.

There’s an architecture of modernity.

An architecture of nationhood.

And space in which we simply do nothing at all.

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Tranquillity

Posted on May 2, 2014April 30, 2014 by eddietay in Colour

We all need to walk.

I have done this walk so many times now, that some of these images are lodged in my mind.

We all know how our external environments organize our internal state.

In a crowded shopping mall, we’re all a bit tense.

Look at water and we relax.

We all need a depository of homely images in our mind.

So we feel at home even outside of home.

There’s a story of a family here waiting to be told.

Just a little narrative.

A little space.

A scattering of things telling us who we are.

Just a little window to the world. A little insight.

A safe harbor.

And we’re home.

Wu Kai Sha Beach

Posted on December 12, 2013March 10, 2014 by eddietay in Colour

There’s something going on at Wu Kai Sha beach.

I keep seeing Zen-like arrangements:

The stones are speaking.

And there’s always someone painting the rocks. Sometimes, you see “God is love” in both English and Chinese etched in the sand.

And once in a while, someone builds a turtle sculpture…

This gentleman has been at it all morning…

The sand is reclaiming its boat:

The water has achieved what the sand is doing:

Am I a shadow thinking I am a man or a man thinking I am a shadow?

Or am I a shadow of a man or a man emerging from his shadow?

I text, google, search and take a picture – therefore I am.

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