BYE BYE

AWAKENING

The people I’ve tried to make love with, haunt my virtual reality dreams that are as fragile as a crashed hard drive or pulled plug. My dreams haunt my dreams. Everything I have ever seen or imagined or done, invisibly haunt my super-reality dreams.

I am not a bad man, yet I am a troubled man, troubled by what could have been, what was, what should have been, what can never be. If my dreams trouble someone as guiltless and meaningless as me, what must the dreams of Adolf, Idi, Mao, George W, and Pius XII have been? Not to mention good men like Bill, Obama, and Indira. What was in the dreams of Chopin, A.S. Neill, and Groucho as they lay dying?

How can it be that 5000 years of human majesty and shame can absolutely vanish in a millisecond explosion, along with all the cute bunnies, redwoods, hummingbirds, crocodiles, roses, manatees, and mosquitoes we’ve killed.

My list of tragedies are endless and soothing, yet fill only a page of the Great Unabridged Dictionary of things known, experienced, not known, imagined, unimagined, and distorted.

HOME

LOVER

Etchings: MARTIN NAARMANN

Great artist from Germany, Portugal, Chile, Taiwan . . . . .

VETERANS' HOUSING DEMOLISHED

First, young men are forced by the Warlord to fight the People's Army (which later became the Madman's Guards, then the Oligarchy's Enforcers). Then, the survivors and maimed young men are given concrete bunkers to temporarily live in for 3 generations. Now the apolitical addicted Money Launderers evict them to die, destroying their aging communities, and sentencing their neighbors to invisible extinction.....Life is certainly not fair, at all, at all.

CONSTRUCTION / DESTRUCTION

DASI....A GOOD PLACE TO LIVE

NICE MAN

Newt Wallace, age 93...newspaper delivery boy for "The Winters Express" of Winters, California, population 6600. He publishes 2300 copies, and walks through the village distributing them every week since 1947. He does not plan to retire......There's still hope for us.

LANTERN FESTIVAL

I TOOK THE TRAIN TO PINGXI…..The first time I sent a lantern to heaven to honor my mentor, film director Kurosawa Akira…..The second time I thanked Taiwan for the peacefulness of Pingxi, Tamsui, Hsimenting, Taipei 101, the Non-Violent Transfer from a 50-Year Old Dictatorship to Democracy, Hands Across Taiwan, and the Million-Person Sit-In, instead of Hajj, the Ganges, and soccer riots,….The third time I prayed that Taiwan would have a visionary, humanistic, effective President who would not sell Taiwan to China, developers, bankers, or controlled media corporations…..

NEW 228 PEACE PARK

THE SACRED & THE PROFANE

END AND BEGINNING

落日餘暉

DIFFERENT REALITY

HAPPY V-DAY !

LOVE AND PAIN

The loss of love, fast or slow, (by death-boredom-horniness-betrayal-bitterness-blame-fighting-hatred), is the most painful thing in life, other than physical torture. It happens to almost everyone, often several times. Yet without experiencing such pain, we can never love, and that is much worse.

TRANSIENT ART

吳洛纓