A newcomer’s pictorial log - 初來者的圖像日誌

A newcomer’s pictorial log

初來者的圖像日誌

4/13/2025

Walking down the aisle of the apartment floor shortly after moving in, I noticed almost every single residence on my floor had some kind of display to show for neighbors or visitors on both sides of the front door. They were mostly photos or paintings, objects of art, and handicrafts, likely made or put together by residents themselves. They impressed me and gave me incentive to follow the same to start off my new journey on the right foot!

Here are a few displays I put together during the stay over days in the new residence :

Week One

On the left hand side: The left one is a torn paper collage of “range upon range of mountains“* (both pictures by gl)

Below Right: a display was assembled with a few miniature porcelain pieces, behind it a photo book with (a pen and ink of a tea set on the cover by gl )

Week two

On the right hand side : Again, two pictures made by me,

One of them a sailing boat (pastel by gl)

On the left hand side : two wooden miniature canoes from Alaska trip years ago, and behind them a pen and ink sketch of a small boat mooring under the Yangtze River Bridge when we visited Nanking, China back in early millennium

<= (Pen and ink by gl)

Week 3

Below:

A collection of different size pots, urns, etc. assembled from various trips in the past including one signed by the potter herself (the leftest piece which was acquired in Arizona on a visit twenty some years ago)

Week 4

On the left is a handcrafted swan I acquired back in Taiwan made of special kind of paper more than a decade earlier. On the right is a collage I put together using fallen cottonwood leaves for tree crowns and torn paper and other media such as paper-cut couple sitting facing each other by the lake