May 23, 2021Series. Puntopia.Title: Collideoscope. Grand Royalton, One Grantai, Estrada Governador Nobre de Carvalho, Taipa. (fiction) A kaleidoscope is an optical instrument with two or more reflecting surfaces (or mirrors) tilted to each other at an angle, so that one or more (parts of) objects on one end of the mirrors are seen…Existentialism2 min read
May 16, 2021Series. PuntopiaTitle. Diddly Squat. Lisboa. 2–4 Av. de Lisboa, Macau (fiction) Around Puntopia triviality matters. Superficiality is the night and day standard. Glitz n glamour is the golden yardstick. But in the grand scheme of things, it all means diddly squat. You see, punters drawn to the trivial pursuit of finding…Gambling Addiction2 min read
Apr 16, 2021Series. RMD Gallery. Maldives.Title: Island of Hoarafushi Still on the subject of The Birds, I think what I cherish the most about the STILL-ness quality of a colour photograph is this; In the non-linear narrative quality of a photo-graph, we are given the space/time to open our minds and relax into the unhurried…Colour Photography3 min read
Apr 7, 2021Series. Puntopia.Title: Alice in Wonderland. Hotel Lisboa. 2–4 Av. de Lisboa, Macau Puntopia is a wonderland of wealth shifting characters. While their physical shape remains the same, their level of affluence rises and falls. They have perceptions of getting more, when more often, they end up with less. Their spin through…Existentialism1 min read
Mar 10, 2021Series. Puntopia.Title: Red, White & Blue. R. de Fat San, Macau. There’s a lot of red around Puntopia. Red lights. Red Flags. Red cognac flushed faces. Not much white. Things of that hue tend to turn yellow or a dull orange after exposure to the smoke and mildew that is prevalent…Street Photography2 min read
Feb 26, 2021Series. Puntopia.Title: Up, down, left or right. Countdown Hotel. Crown Towers Estr. do Istmo, Taipa. Macau. (fiction) Life is a game of choices. Good decisions. Bad decisions. Decisions that can make or break us. Take us up, or down. Or horizontally. Sometimes we need to take a left turn in order…Decision Making3 min read
Feb 24, 2021Series. Puntopia.Title: La Creche. The Parisian. Lote 3, Strip, SAR, P.R. China, Estr. do Istmo, Macau. (fiction) Kids around Puntopia are usually left to their own devices. Mum and Dad are way too busy. Hand them a smart phone, and let the juveniles amuse themselves. For boys and girls should be…Parental Guidance2 min read
Feb 22, 2021Series. Puntopia.Title: The Vestibule. Hotel Lisboa. 2–4 Av. de Lisboa, Macau. (fiction) The ever faithful, the punters, the gambling fanatics of an almost religious order, are forthcoming day and night. These loyal pilgrims come to revel within the vestibules of Puntopia, this outlandish mecca of depravity. All the while they take…Fiction Writing2 min read
Feb 19, 2021Series. Puntopia.Title: Champagne Supernova in the Sky. Av. do Infante Dom Henrique. Macau. A supernova is a powerful and luminous stellar explosion. This transient, astronomical event, occurs during the last evolutionary stages of a massive star. The original object, called a ‘progenitor’, either collapses into a neutron star or is completely…Fiction2 min read
Feb 17, 2021Series. Puntopia.Title: Shooting into the Light. Av. do Infante Dom Henrique. Macau. The theory is that moths as primarily nocturnal insects, have evolved to travel by the light of the moon and the stars. A phenomenon knows as transverse orientation. An easy way to think about about transverse orientation is to…Fiction Writing2 min read
