The tea exhibitors at the Xiamen expo were nothing like the old: the booths were fancy constructions, the staff were friendly and eager to sit you down for some tea, and many items were for sale right on the spot. In the past, I remembered the tea exhibitors had always seemed bored and had the plainest booths. There was hardly enough interest to eat through the bags of peanuts while reading the…
Chitfu Yu Exhibit, Faces
Finding resonance
My dad the life long artist has often said, finding the relation and balance between light and dark, empty and full, space and beyond space, is about finding resonance. But what is hardest is achieving that in real life- finding others to understand your universe and partake with you spiritually; that is resonance.
Today, the exhibit at the Foshan Art Museum drew hundreds, and good questions…
The last of the literati
The final, educated, trained and knowledgeable few, in in-depth Chinese culture and art, are all from my parents’ generation. Those born and educated before the Cultural Revolution, that is, who have suffered tremendously for their education, and who have decided to bravely carry on the mantel of the arts on behalf the 1.4 billion Chinese in the mainland. My dad counts as one, though from afar in…
Mr. Cheng Goes to China
The one and only, renowned Fu-Tung Cheng is the creator of what many of you experience as Teance before you even get to the tea: the environment and context, the proper esthetic for tea. That soothing, beautiful timelessness, that alertness to detail that heightened senses. When you walk into Teance in Fourth St, you experience Mr. Cheng’s creation.
I accompanied him for a different purpose these…
