The end of this episode of “This American Life” brought me back to my memories of the three times I took Lariam (an anti-malarial) before and then during the first two weeks I spent in Vietnam in 2000. Basically, it was so insane that I decided to stop taking it (really really intense dreams and then one morning when I was hallucinating after I woke up). I thought my experience was bad, until I heard the podcast this morning.
I also read this website and was further convinced.

Sleepless, 2010

by a Reception (age 5) student from China

by a Reception student (age 5) from the U.K.

She declared it was a Chinese woman.
I love this work of art.

I have some good art news–regarding me!– to report.

First, I’m having a show at Motus Fort in Tokyo (if you are in China, you have to go to the site by proxy). It’s some work from my Sichuan project, and will open on February 12 or 13…details to come soon. Please let all your friends living in Japan know!

Lijiang Studio has also published a few notebooks with artists’ work over the past year. They will soon publish one of mine (I’m late on providing the images though! AH!)…It will contain photographs from the thirty days I spent photographing Lao He. Details, again, will hopefully be provided soon. Let me know if you want a copy!

Merry Christmas to my wonderful friends who are reading…I’m in the U.S. right now, and returning to Beijing on the 28th. I’ll be there for one night, then it’s off to Thailand for New Year’s. All the travel seems to suit me.