Comments on: Starting New Chapters

By: Seeing the Tending of Fields | erhebung

Seeing the Tending of Fields | erhebung — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:53:23 +0000

[...] just read ‘Starting New Chapters’, an excellent essay by Hannah Pierce-Carlson. Definitely worth reading, if you haven’t already. Here is where [...]

By: TC Lin

TC Lin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:53:44 +0000

Ah, it's always interesting to see Taiwan from the point of a newcomer, kind of reminds me of when I first arrived over two decades ago.

By: sclptrjoel

sclptrjoel — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:37:41 +0000

I particularly sympathize with Michael. In 2004, my wife and I stumbled into Taiwan when I was invited to represent the USA in the Kaohsiung International Steel Sculpture Festival. We'd never been to Asia and it was a pivotal experience in our lives. We have been back to Taiwan four times since. I agree everybody SHOULD have a place that has awakened us in some way. Taiwan turned out to be that place for two North Carolinians. For ten essays on culture shock in Taiwan I offer my own from the Spring of 2009 at http://joelhaasstravels.blogspot.com
And the leading blog for expats in Taiwan--if you have not found it yet--is Michael Turton's The View From Taiwan (Turton lives in Taichung.)
Joel Haas, sculptor
www.sculpturewalk.org
joel@joelhaasstudio.com
Raleigh, NC

By: djrange

djrange — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:23:40 +0000

Hi Hannah,
I've been in Taiwan for about three years. There are ups and downs. Initially, my wife and I were living in Hsinchu, but only a few months later, we moved to Banciao, a sort of suburb of Taipei. Life is interesting and we've both taken the opportunity to go back to graduate school.

Hope you enjoy it.

By: Michael Julius

Michael Julius — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:36:52 +0000

Starting a new chapter and all its associated issues is a great opportunity for discussion on insig.ht. There is something really important about the cause of paying an informed, and perhaps reverent, attention to your surroundings. Seeking to see something in that 'invisible potential' is a worthy goal because it usually means you're being reflective or connected. As Hannah puts it perfectly, "the pictures froth up out of experience."

Beginning the new, after spending so much time in another world is really difficult and Hannah gets the nuance of those efforts right. I am learning a lot from her. I am having a hell of a time trying to make sense of what I am looking at. I don't speak the language, it is my first time to Asia, and its all a little inexplicable at times. I have yet to make a picture that I care to see twice. It's frustrating, but hopeful all the same, because the craft has become my personal measure of whether I've found my place in this new place. To me that's a better role for the camera - a handy barometer of my growing awareness of my relationship to what I learn.

Here's to the practice of photography.

By: Liz Kuball

Liz Kuball — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:32:44 +0000

I'm so glad to see Hannah here! She's one of my favorite voices in my Twitter stream, and her photographs are equally compelling.

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uberVU - social comments — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:44:39 +0000

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