Last Scene In Siam

Last Party

2009-05-29T04:05:00.000-07:00

The year in Bangkok was a wonderful experience. I'm back in London for the summer. I'll get a new online journal up soon but this is The Last Scene In Siam.

Thank you for watching.

The Continuing Summer School Party

2009-04-12T03:27:00.000-07:00

Paper airplane
Practising drawing stars.
Paint!
Write!
Hands, Fingers & Thumbs.

Summer School Party

2009-04-09T02:07:00.000-07:00

Summer school has started. I have a class of three five year old boys. Here are some projects I've been doing with my students...

We made Teepees...

Star Wars gets a mention, as does Kung Fu Panda and Superman but Batman is the favourite. We made batman masks.

I have to ration Batman colouring pages as they would like to colour in every single black and white Batman there is in the world.

Lopburi Party

2009-04-05T05:29:00.000-07:00

These are people from Lopburi at an arts and crafts fair.

Women hand painting intricate designs on to teacups.

A man weaving on a loom.

http://www.thai-otop-city.com/

Lopburi is famous for the many monkeys which reside in its town.

However, this is a picture I took there of the lesser famous elephant.

See What I Saw Party

2009-03-24T08:19:00.001-07:00

Internet history for today, see what I saw.
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Cinema Screen Party

2009-03-21T11:13:00.000-07:00

Maps Magazine.
Image to accompany world cinema review column.

V Party

2009-03-10T12:37:00.001-07:00

The V Word Zine

Crunch Party

2009-03-09T21:40:00.000-07:00

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:17 AM :
Hi Rupa,

A world cinema column would be fantastic!

As for illustrations, I'm expecting an article by The Indelicates about the recession, so anything themed along those lines would be good, maybe something combining it with the broader map theme of the site?

Paul
www.mapsmagazine.co.uk

journal anon to Paul show details 11:37 AM (23 minutes ago)
Hi Paul,

Here's what I came up with.

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The map's theme plays on being lost in a dark wood and the recession is illustrated by the bare money trees layered with the burnt five pound note (oh dear!)

Hope this is ok,

best wishes,
Rupa

Zine Party

2009-03-02T08:24:00.000-08:00

Make a zine. It's good for you.

Cake in the clouds Party

2009-02-21T18:16:00.000-08:00

My 'Modern Physics / Eye Glass' featured here. Someone buy it. Please. Tell you what, if you're reading this and you want it, it's yours. I'll trade it for cake. Or gum.

After Party

2009-02-21T06:07:00.000-08:00

Before.

And After. (Theoretically thirty-seven years earlier...)

More ingredients for my porfolio cookbook here.

Kids Party

2009-02-21T04:50:00.000-08:00

Illustrations for a children's book.

So sickly sweet I can hardly bear to put pencil to paper.

Cloudy Party

2009-02-19T02:40:00.000-08:00

Here's an image I have on the Victoria and Albert Museum's online gallery.

I'm a little sleepy today after partying to promote our play. Up at five and worked on The V Word zine. To be honest, I couldn't resist a little cat nap in the multimedia room at TCDC, but that's between you, me and the closed circuit television surveillance system.

Prosthetic Party

2009-02-13T19:09:00.000-08:00

I have been working on the computer to build up a portfolio and my hand is turning into a claw due to using the mouse for 15 hours a day.

Perhaps I should put that bid in for the robotic arm after all. And fashion some kind of hook in the interim...

Poster Party

2009-02-07T08:28:00.000-08:00

Here's the flyer I designed for the Bangkok Production of The Vagina Monologues for V Day. Created in a passionate love/hate relationship with adobe illustrator.

vdayenglish

Publish at Scribd or explore others:

Just come back in a while, after making tea or popping out to the shops... it will load...

Telephone Party

2009-02-06T23:17:00.000-08:00

I am sketching on a piece of canvas for a new painting. in the bottom left of the picture there should be a telephone receiver. So I'm using my telephone reciver as a model. The one in the painting should look like it belongs in an 1980s New York kitsch 'boudoir' (Whatever the hell that is.) But it my phone looks as though it was taken from an abandoned German office block in the mid 90s. An annoying beeping noise started after I left it off the hook for a while. To stop it, I have rested a pot of PVA glue on the cradle.

Rhukha Mail Party

2009-02-06T00:23:00.000-08:00

Today I launched my new online shop Rhukha Mail

Rhukha Mail is a concept stationery store, based on mail art The store will deliver notes, stationery and collage illustration on 7" x 4.5" envelopes to your door.

There's a launch promotion too: All orders receive a gift collage. Until end of February.

Postal Service Party

2009-02-04T23:39:00.000-08:00

I've started a mail-art project with my friends. Or at least I'm forcing them to be a part of it by sending unsolicited art through the postal service and telling them that they are now a part of the project and cannot escape.

You can join in the Rhukha Mail Art Project
too if you send me your address in an email.

Cut and Paste Party

2009-02-04T19:25:00.000-08:00

I'm making a behind-the-scenes zine for the Bangkok Production of The Vagina Monologues. However, since putting my computer in the shop to get it 'fixed' it's crashed every time I open a picture file. Oh dear, but it's difficult not to feel endeared to those pale techies who so rarely see the light of day at windowless Pantip. Maybe I'll have to hand-write the zines, or perhaps commission them for a robotic arm...

Patravadi Party

2009-01-19T08:31:00.001-08:00

The Patravadi Theatre is a beautiful space for performing arts in Bangkok. Today I was making costumes there. The premise of the play I was working on based on the lack of abstinence and promiscuity amongst some Buddhist monks in contemporary Thai society.

In the play, some nuns are given the role of seducing the monks. For this project I made two petticoats out of muslin and a red chiffon enmeshed with natural twine. The nuns uniforms are white. The redness of the petticoats, which were just visible, were to represent the desire beneath the surface.

White Party

2009-01-18T08:32:00.000-08:00

At home alone I wear men's trousers.

Team Party

2009-01-17T01:38:00.000-08:00

I've started an online group for arts and crafts in Thailand.

Summer Party

2009-01-16T02:13:00.000-08:00

Some children's book illustrations I sketched this week.

Solo Party

2009-01-07T21:09:00.000-08:00

Today has mostly been spent drawing pictures of owls and wandering around the house wearing a homemade tiara and sports socks.

Pajama Party

2009-01-06T21:11:00.000-08:00

Men's grey and white striped shirt from Fame. Made in Thailand.

Venus Party

2009-01-05T21:32:00.000-08:00

Last month I saw Venus Party, a piece of contemporary physical theatre performed at the Bangkok Theatre Festival in December '08. It broaches issues about women in modern society, including eating disorders, body image, the objectification of women, women in the workplace, treating the body as a commodity and competitive consumerism. One scene depicts a man and a woman entering into the convention of marriage. The expressing to'tie the knot' is represented literally by a rope tying their necks together. The rope representing the institution of marriage and the and bondage it locks its subscribers into.

The play ended with a message of hope; a dream-like sequence where the cast were dimly illuminated and it was possible to see the specks of dust swirling in the air. The characters chased these dust particles in slow-motion, marvelling at their beauty and treating the valueless as precious. It served as a reminder that we each survive in our own paradigm and the truth in life and beauty lies both within ourselves and in the world we live should we seek to find it.

Christmas Present Party

2009-01-04T03:04:00.000-08:00

My gift for Jane is still here. I've seen her twice since Christmas but it's still sitting in my apartment, I'm forgetful.

Christmas Party

2008-12-21T08:05:00.000-08:00

This year's Christmas card

Decorated the apartment.

Photo Party

2008-12-18T08:40:00.000-08:00

I'm trying to get an exhibition in Bangkok of photographs I took in South Korea.

The Rotunda Gallery at the Neilson Hayes wrote to me, so maybe I'll have an exhibition there in '09.

Music Party

2008-12-17T08:38:00.000-08:00

My graphics have been used in the Christmas issue of Maps Magazine.
You can see the backgrounds here:
Maps Index
Maps feature

Deathtrap

2008-12-16T03:10:00.000-08:00

Last month I was working with BTC as costume designer on a production of Ira Levin's 'Deathtrap' directed by Ray Possick.

Reviews:
The Nation
The Bangkok Post
Traversing the Orient
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The play is set in a New York suburb during the 1980s.
Moodboards

Character: Sidney Bruhl.

Character: Myra Bruhl

Character: Clifford Anderson.

Next I will be working on the Bangkok production of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" in association with V-Day, an international campaign to end violence against women. The play will be bi-lingual, in Thai and English, it opens in March, I'm really pleased to be working on it.

Dolls Tea Party

2008-12-05T08:50:00.000-08:00

To launch the Heart My Days With Blythe zine I created this treasury:

This was fun to make. I have a small collection of Blythe photography at home which started with some prints from JinaC

Painting Party

2008-12-05T08:48:00.000-08:00

A detail of a painting I did for my father for a Christmas present.

Physics Party

2008-11-13T08:45:00.000-08:00

Modern Physics hanging home decorations.

On a trip to Chinatown I found fresh water pearls and australian crystal. To make these hanging sculptures I interlaced metal wire with white cotton thread. I wrapped the frame with linen and intertwined it with metal chain.

I have some 'blood red' paper roses and 'black diamond' crystals I'd like to use for the next ones.

Resting, after party.

2008-09-16T08:15:00.000-07:00

I have started a series of paintings entitled 'The Science of Sleep'.In preparation I took photographs and sketches of a resting body.

Working with a very light colour palette in watercolour I chose pinks and greys, peaceful colours. The paintings incorporate daubs of gold leaf to represent a slipping of the conciousness into something secret and precious.

Art Party

2008-08-14T08:31:00.000-07:00

Photographs of my students' work and my summer as lead visual arts teacher at the international summer school camp.