I will share my incredible artistic experience in Beijing in 1989. Al was working there for a Japanese company. He often bought me art supplies from a fun little art area.
When I went with him he took me to his favorite store and gallery (I use the word gallery loosely 🤣) The shop was in an area called LiLuLiChang (English meaning - Portuguese tile street.)
The front of all the shops were in antique Portuguese Tiles. And the shops (one small room the merchant lived in and sold in) were the first Independant merchants in China.
My thrill was that I met the master’s apprentice. He painted a horse and poem for me and in return, I did a portrait of him using his Chinese brush and ink. Yes the Portuguese left their beautiful mark and I saw it. And I left mine.
I think of these stores as Amazon without a search function. That store in Cascais has everything under the sun if you have time to look for it. At least some Chinese factories employ slave labor which I don't want to support, so I try to shop elsewhere first. https://www.endslaverynow.org/act/action-library/learn-about-forced-labor-in-china
Invaluable for so many items, just brought our car sun shade visor for 5 Euros (one must have when parking the car in the hot sun here)!
I will share my incredible artistic experience in Beijing in 1989. Al was working there for a Japanese company. He often bought me art supplies from a fun little art area.
When I went with him he took me to his favorite store and gallery (I use the word gallery loosely 🤣) The shop was in an area called LiLuLiChang (English meaning - Portuguese tile street.)
The front of all the shops were in antique Portuguese Tiles. And the shops (one small room the merchant lived in and sold in) were the first Independant merchants in China.
My thrill was that I met the master’s apprentice. He painted a horse and poem for me and in return, I did a portrait of him using his Chinese brush and ink. Yes the Portuguese left their beautiful mark and I saw it. And I left mine.
Did this store have an Army can opener?😊🤗🤗🤗
I think of these stores as Amazon without a search function. That store in Cascais has everything under the sun if you have time to look for it. At least some Chinese factories employ slave labor which I don't want to support, so I try to shop elsewhere first. https://www.endslaverynow.org/act/action-library/learn-about-forced-labor-in-china