The photographer and the Ostrich

The photographer and the Ostrichtm1220 0102 2 Mix media: shadow box frame, papier mch, plastic, watercolour on paper 205mm x 155mm x 32mm Tomio Nitto loves to work with hands. Sometimes he builds theatres, like these two miniature scenes inside the boxes, one depicting day and the other depicting night, both staging perhaps the same photographer capturing some quite amazing moments. Dwelling on the contrasting thoughts of the ostrich and the black bear are they friends or foes?

each connection switch

卓別靈。 Chaplin

from small

He was seeing his city distancing

I had ten 30x40 inch canvas prints on the wall

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(dated 1988) on verso

I would hesitate between 409 and the deeper grey 410

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Yau died accidentally in 1997 from injuries sustained in a fall in his lab

Photographs and cameras

“Growing Up in Hong Kong