Back In Changchun – Closing Ceremonies
Coming back to the La Tour Morgan Suites after my 2 week sojourn to Beijing and Qinghai, was a bit like coming back to school. I was glad to be met at the airport by my trusty interpreter, Sunshine. She had arranged a swish committee SUV to collect me and glide me back into the […]
There Is Only One Party In China
Flying through the smog at 160 km/h on the train to Beijing… The enslaved landscape is a green blur, interspersed with cityscapes of apocalyptic proportions. Concrete factories, cooling towers, apartment block construction and destruction all flashing by in the murk. Yet there is hope, a landscape of wooded hillocks with a forest of the biggest […]
Video: Hammering Inside The Fire Ball
Aragorn’s first video of the Great Fire Ball of China
Update On The Day to Day
The sculpture projects continue at a relentless pace. More and more of the artists have finished their bronze pieces. When I say finished, it means they have been cast in fiberglass and painted to look like bronze work. These sculptures will be displayed at the final ceremony and later taken to the foundry to be […]
Interview by Virgin Islands News Online
I was recently interviewed by Virgin Islands News Online (VINO). Below are the answers I gave. To review the full published online click on VINO Questions: 1. Is this the first time you have been asked to build a fireball overseas? Maybe give a summary if there were others? No, this is not the first […]
Visits To The Changchun Parks
Changchun is famed for it’s parks. Being pretty much a totally post World War 2 city, the concept of the garden city was obviously part of the equation. Generous allowance for parks, lakes and open air recreational civic space was factored in to the plan. Great, you might think, fresh air…..well forget that bit, but […]
The Ultimate Propaganda Excursion
The Ultimate Propaganda Excursion! Wow…we have just had a class act state propaganda experience !!! With very little explanation as to where we were being taken to, we were loaded on to our buses after lunch and taken for an hours drive out into the country side …..well sort of country side, mostly mass planted […]
The Dream of Human Harmony
The Dream of Human Harmony. The Fire Ball Sculpture is rocking on. We rolled it this morning and cut open the top. Min and I went in to get out the scraps. It was fun to be inside for the first time but it confirmed my suspicions that a team of grinders will be necessary […]
On And On To Infinity…We Shall See.
On and on to infinity…..we shall see. (3 days of rambling blog ) The work load is still there. Thankfully the Power of Nature spiral is nearly done ….I print in the industrial junk in patches as Xueye, the assistant plods on..smoothing and patching sections at his whim. I have have left him to his […]
Checking Out The Real Situation
Checking out the real situation….. Though I will never know the real state of this mega nation, it is fascinating being thrown …been drawn, into the midst of it. Us artists are of course in a bizarre bubble , a hand picked group of people from all over the globe, being given special treatment ,very […]