Happy valentine's day!

Happy valentine's day! or independent day!

(this is a traditional calendar in Taiwan. It shows everything you can do on today, from if it is a good day to get married to can you cut your hair. )

Today Matilda visited ‘San-He Tile Kiln’ (blog: http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/ )

It locates in Kaohsiung county (well… it is combined with Kaohsiung city now) Tiles is one of the basic elements in Taiwanese architecture. San-He tile Kiln has been one of the factories, which is still producing traditional tiles for nearly a hundred year. The manufactory keeps a sophisticated way to produce tiles; mostly hand made and pays so much attention on each one of them.

Moreover, San-He tile kiln is transforming itself to muti-culture development, brings the variety of products and educational purpose. Hope with the help of government can also evoke more interest from public and society.

Matilda took some photos, feel so warm when seeing the factory and those tiles cause I used to running around the house when come back here with my father to visited aunty in Chinese New Year. Today I was running around like a kid again, haha.

This is one of my fav!

After visited the factory, I have some nice ideas with it to create some art works, so hope that Matilda can have some funding to work with the tile kiln. (Okay, put this on my 2011 to do list! haha) 

On my way home, this is one of tube stations in Kaohsiung, the Kaohsiung MRT Formosa Boulevard Station. It is designed by Shin Takamatsu architect and associates. (http://www.takamatsu.co.jp/)

ps, 

1. all the right of pictures are reserved by San-He Tile Kiln.

2. please contact with me if you would like to donate some funding for my future art works.

Love to all nice people in the world!

Hope you all enjoy today and everyday!!

Greeting cards

Thank you Parlour,

Matilda was joining a sSS project (small but sweet) with Parlour from Italy.
It is a postcard exchange project, artists sends a postcard to Porlour, after collect those postcard, Porlour send them randomly back to artists who join this project.

So, Matilda got a beautiful card from Parlour, and a lovely postcard from Tim Breukers! (hey, didn't we meet in Belgium last year? :) )

This is a very sweet project, have to say I was really happy to get greeting cards!

and guys check Tim's website! he creates nice art works!

HAPPY RABBIT YEAR!

First of all,

HAPPY RABBIT YEAR! 

There are lots celebration from all over the world, and I feel so happy that am here with my family during Chinese new year. However, I have to give away two red envelopes this year for my niece and nephew, the red envelops is presenting at special events such as as wedding, Chinese new year or opening of business. Take new year for example, parents or elders put packet money into red envelops, and give to children (the feeling of opening a red envelope is a little bit similar with gifts in the sucks during christmas... haha)  The red colour symbolizes good luck and function as to ward off evil spirits. Children get exciting by receiving red envelops.

WARP contemporary art platform - Belgium

COUP DE VILLE in Belgium 2010

Finally

Finally I get back home, and finally I take some photos for previous illustration and interview that shown on magazine…

Thanks for my cousin. She bought a nice camera, so I get to borrow it, haha

illustrations...

'LAST HOUR'

Interview...

'30 MAGAZINE'

前衛  看出帶刺的深思考 

（這標也下得太好了吧！給妳一百個讚！）

"那以後要叫妳前衛帶刺的深思考小姐"

"........"

MATILDA CREATIVE

After came back from UK… (actually I didn’t feel very sad at the time, perhaps knowing I will be back one day, but really miss the life in London…)

Matilda was preparing my studio- MATILDA CREATIVE, mainly for creative solutions, use all the skill that I can do and cooperate with other studio/artist, and also open for opportunities in the UK. (Looking for company that would like to work permit me, I will do everything! ...legal) haha 

My first project back to Asia was creating wedding solutions for Howard and Niko’s wedding, which are including wedding invitation, small book for gift and videos for playing in the wedding.

wedding invitation design

喜帖設計

cause Howard like the way I did for traditional war (please check digital drawing) and stencil graffiti that I used to do..

wedding invitation design - there is a cup mat inside of the invitation

囍帖打開裡面有不織布杯墊可以取下

really love the texture of it

Wedding invitation design - cup mat, the shape is symbol of infinity... (can you see it?)

There are two cups you can put in one time.

自己把杯墊取名為 --- 好事成雙 無限大杯墊，一次可以放兩杯呦！

The photographic books are on the table...

還有婚禮附贈伴手禮在左邊的桌子上

COUP DE VILLE 2

“Secret garden” by Hans Op de Beeck (BE) 2003/10

In site Vrije Technische scholen, collegestraat en Onze-Lieve-Vrouwplein

 “Blind Trust II” by Jarg Geismar (DE)

In square hall at the municipal Academy of Fine arts.

“Desintegration” by Marc Biji (NL) 2010

In a garden, Stationsstraat 90 (access via Richard Van Britsomstraat)

 “Naughty Girl” by Giovanni Rizzoli (IT) 2010

Location in a garden, Casinostrraat 21.

The owner of this garden is also an artist, he has a nice studio in the house, lots of painting s and huge collection about his religion.

“ (T) HERE” by Eric Croux (BE) 2010

in a private residence, Nieuwstraat 22.

Don’t have enough images; this artwork is actually my favorite, the concept is really sweet and the installation is so elegant that looks AMAZING.

‘(T)Here is about the tension between pairs of concepts that deny but nevertheless depend upon each other: present and absent, visible and invisible.’ – from book Coup de ville

it's new year soon! (in Chinese calendar)

Happy New Year everyone!

Feels like I took a really long rest, haha

At the end of 2010, Matilda was working/ traveling/ moving and finally backs to Asia for a while...

It's always good to be home! 

2011 is the 100th year of Taiwan; it is changing a lot, especially my hometown Kaohsiung... in a good way :)

So...

First, I want to share some thing i did at the end of last year...

"Coup de ville 2010 in Sint-Niklaas Belgium"

It was organized by WARP contemporary art platform, from 11.09.2010-24.10.2010

Sint Niklaas is a town in between Gent and Antwerpen in Belgium. Warp invited contemporary artists from all over the world residing in the houses of citizens it the town. 

Follow the map you can easily (can be difficult sometimes, cause the view in the town is beautiful!) find a sculptures, installations inside people’s house.

At the same time, WARP also invited curators/critics/artists from different filed to join the conference, exchanging their point of views, and showing each other portfolios. Artists were living in the caravans. Here is the container that Matilda was living… couldn’t help to draw on window and pretend there is a real curtain, haha.

Our container were built in a market square,  the caravan for meeting was built by artist Karl Philips.

There were two cute caravans for security guards as well, cause we actually lived in an open space.

Please allow me to write the description for the exhibition later. I have to say it did open my mind and learn a lot during this event, meeting some nice and wonderful people; Matilda would live to do this again for 2011.

A hole on the road for bicycles.

A lady called Elie Van, gave me a card and gave me some nice suggestions at the end of the journey, and chocolates from Belgium is one of the best of course. :)