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Photography
Before the Market Wakes
At half past six, the vegetable sellers are already arranging the day into neat green rows.
A personal journal from China
Stories from an
ordinary life.
Stories, photos, and everyday life from China.
I’m a designer, art teacher, and independent maker living in China. This is where I keep stories, photographs, small observations, and things I make along the way.
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The Street After the Rain
A slow afternoon, a bowl of hot noodles, and the small changes rain brings to an ordinary street.
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Travel
A Window Seat South
Notes from a train: low clouds, wet fields, and towns that appear for only a few seconds.
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Teaching
What Children Notice First
A few things I have learned from teaching art without telling children what their pictures should become.
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Design
Small Tools, Good Company
Why I still enjoy making modest web tools that solve one problem and then stay out of the way.
Through the camera
Photography
Brief entries
Notes
Peaches by the road
A man had arranged twelve peaches on a piece of newspaper beside the bus stop. No sign, no shouting. He was reading, and looked up only when someone stopped.
The rain ended just before dinner. For ten minutes, every passing bicycle made the street shine again.
In the studio
The best part of today’s class was the quiet after everyone found an idea. Twenty children working, and only the sound of pencils moving.
About Evan
A designer, teacher, and maker who likes to pay attention.
I live in China, where I teach art, take photographs, and build small things for the web. This site is a record of what I notice along the way.
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