the view from fanling

I thought that I was familiar with all the Chinese ‘four-character idioms’, or cheng yu , that I could usefully deploy in my own vocabular...

I was cycling along the bank of my local river yesterday when I suddenly became aware of what appeared to be some kind of chromatic halo out...

I recently had occasion to reproach someone for complaining that, having just turned 40, they felt old. My reproach took the form of a perso...

I present the latest in my series of photographs inspired by abstract expressionism. They do have something to say as artistic statements, b...