Artsy! 黄桷坪的艺术不囧！

（Entrance to the gallery opening.)

(One of the pieces of art on exhibition. The artist's idea was to take old classical Chinese paintings and make them look like cross-stitch patterns [if you don't know what cross-stitch is google it]. It is a very popular activity here in China.)

(A man tending his garden in a government housing block near the river in Huangjue Ping.)

(Helping Huang Lin on his latest project. He invites his friends to write their thoughts on a canvas. Soon the canvass is covered with words and thoughts. It doesn't matter if you write over someone else's thoughts. The whole point is to express yourself!)

(Huang Lin's studio! He invited Jane, Ed, and me here later that afternoon and we helped him with his latest project [see above]. He has shown in Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, and Shenzhen. He will go to Dusseldorf this summer to see if he can have a showing there as well. A very friendly guy. He teaches oil painting at the local art school.)

(A lady selling vegetables in a common area surrounded by old government housing.)

(My dear British friend Jane showed me an art-book store. The people were really nice, they offered us free tea and a seat. We met our artist friend Huang Lin 黄淋 here!)

（The "Tank Loft" area located in the Sichuan School of Fine Arts. All the tank lofts have been converted into design studios.)


One Friday my friend Jane and I (later joined by Jane's beau: Ed) went exploring (again) around Chongqing's art district. These are some decent pictures of the interesting things that we encountered! We met artists! And even got to help one on his latest project! Later that evening the same artist invited us to attend his friend's gallery opening. I had a blast!

(Note: because the blog site's image uploader is strange, the photos are not necessarily in chronological order.)