I’m excited about this new painting…. with the red Taiwan door knockers. The model is my friend Kei. The ‘fortune cookie’ one is also going to be a favorite.

I’m feeling like the other one, with the three girls chasing after the nerdy white guy instead of the cool, handsome Asian, is kind of an inside source of bewilderment in Taiwan. Though I’ve been thinking about it for awhile and I’m pretty happy with the effect, it’s not as simply great as many of my less complex pieces. Maybe because, unlike the others it is providing social commentary, and I’d much prefer to shock and awe and amuse, without really saying anything at all.