1 & 2: http://www.whiterabbitcollection.org/artists/li-hongbo/
3 & 4: http://www.designboom.com/art/flexible-honeycomb-paper-sculptures-by-li-hongbo/
“Paper—you can never predict what it will become in the end.” Li Hongbo 李洪波
1 & 2: http://www.whiterabbitcollection.org/artists/li-hongbo/
3 & 4: http://www.designboom.com/art/flexible-honeycomb-paper-sculptures-by-li-hongbo/
“Paper—you can never predict what it will become in the end.” Li Hongbo 李洪波
Cholon Actress, Cholon, Saigon, French Cochinchina [c1900's] Attribution Unk [RESTORED], originally uploaded by ralphrepo.
Great flickr set: Random pics from Old China, Restored
An Actor From the Chinese Opera (c.1910), originally uploaded by postaletrice.
…marbled pattern of ch’i painted on the forehead in theatrical make-up…recalls the shamanistic masks used in Taoist magic.
Exorcist charm of a Heavenly Messenger riding a Dragon, to be used against the evil influences of Darkness
75: Talisman to repel demons
77: ‘Tao penetrates Heaven and Earth and has qualities beyond Form’
From a window of a chinese supermarket in Amsterdam.