Dalongdong Streets, Taipei

(Important! This drawing will be part of an exhibition from 1/1 until 3/31 at Deco Gallery on the 7th Floor of Shinkong Mitsukoshi Taichung Zhonggang Store. It will be available to collect after this exhibition has finished)

Dalongdong is an area in north Taipei centered around the beautiful Bao-an and Confucius Temples. Before Taipei surrounded it it was a small village and there are several remnants of that settlement left today. In 2014 I began to draw a modern map of the area, however it remains incomplete. One early morning, during the first summer of the pandemic, I took a walk around the area. Initially I was checking a few things so I could restart the modern map. But as I walked around I decided I wanted a close up view of the streets too. A few years before I’d visited the about to be demolished Lanzhou Housing and I wanted to ink the cage covered walls there as a memory of that exploration. A solitary plane landed at Songshan during my walk, a reminder of more normal times, but otherwise the streets and skies were empty and quiet. Usually you only catch glimpses of the planes through buildings and powerlines, so I re-created that here

Drawing measures 125 x 48 cm including frame. Fineliner pen on acid free paper. Free delivery within Taiwan.