In a beach town known for superlatives the dancing seahorse scaled at 600 times actual size is hardly a reminder of the algae eater that inhabits many an aquarium.  This concrete casting located as a Read More …

Being on the road for the past four weeks and away from the Last Door has focused my memory (that which remains!) on the impact David Pavlus has had on my life as teacher, mentor, Read More …

A few years ago when we were visiting Asia, whether Bali, or Phi Phii, or Patong the garbage on beaches was focused on abandoned plastic water bottles, bags and straws. On this visit much of Read More …

There, in the water dancing colours.  Dancing boats at sunset.  Brightly painted long-boats ferry visitors from beach to beach, from mainland to island and even from visiting ships to shore.  Over the hillside the sun Read More …

Tangled in the heavens between poles and buildings are the wires.  A cacophony of telephony and power wires strung from source to wherever and abandoned as required or necessitated by regulation or bill-collector. Clustered wires Read More …

On the beach five bamboo poles are laced together with reed grass.  Sisal rope holds an enlarged seat (a tide worn plank with blue paint and years to go) on which we stand swinging between Read More …

All good stories have a sequel, and if they are lousy stories they may have three or four.  I was digging in the oceans of memory and unearthed a few tidal gems. The first was Read More …

Moving through villages and along roadways I got the chance to see the emergence of the very new and the blooming of the traditional.  The mountain of Watermelons is staged for the taking, touch one Read More …

In bold tropical colours fruits fabricated in paper mache line up on the monastery grounds like students for roll call.  This is not your average school!  This is the Monks school where the poor get Read More …

In the 32 degree evening heat the ice-sculpture melts away.  The heat returns the ice to water. The stylized dancer melts away and the bondage of her art melts into muddles of history.  Story has Read More …