It's about the people I met in Eastern Slovakia in Nov.2004.They got beautiful landscapes and amazing faces there;it seems to be another world to me...

It's about the people I met in Poland for the Xams & New Year's Eve in 2004.

How should I view my hometown after 2 years staying in Prague .I didn't take many pics when I was at home picture ...I prefered to feel;and I smelled a lot...
Does it really smell like home;I'm not that sure anymore...

that sure anymore...

Landscape in Poland-Easter 2005

I started this project since te first week of April,2005.I'm always curious about the stories in the hospital;this is my very first time to come this close to the innocent but unlucky people;I believe,their stories must be told...

believe,their stories must be told...

Luckily I found myself a chance to visit Bohnice,one of the biggest mental hospital in Central Europe. I started this project since March,2005. I visit ward #2 regularly;around 3 or 4 times in a week.Sometimes I slept over night there.Honestly speaking,I haven¡¦t got any experience like this before.I saw some films about mental hospitals,I heard some stories about my friends¡¦ friends,but I have never ever visited some places like that in my life. It would be an unknown journey ahead,I told myself before I started the shooting.
I woulod say it¡¦s certainly a beautiful thing to see such a kind openness from the ladies.That¡¦s something I do appreciate!I tried to be as close as I can,and intended to discover some stories which won¡¦t follow the prejudice the general public had towards the mental hospitals.I saw some beautiful faces which I have never seen in my life before I came there.

For me ,those ladies might be just part of us.We all have certain portion of the ¡§craziness¡¨ within us.Their problems just reflect the most fragile part of we human being and the toughness of the reality we are dealing with nowadays.

week.Sometimes I slept over night there.Honestly speaking,I haven¡¦t got any experience like this before.I saw some films about mental hospitals,I heard some stories about my friends¡¦ friends,but I have never ever visited some places like that in my life. It would be an unknown journey ahead,I told myself before I started the shooting.
I woulod say it¡¦s certainly a beautiful thing to see such a kind openness from the ladies.That¡¦s something I do appreciate!I tried to be as close as I can,and intended to discover some stories which won¡¦t follow the prejudice the general public had towards the mental hospitals.I saw some beautiful faces which I have never seen in my life before I came there.

For me ,those ladies might be just part of us.We all have certain portion of the ¡§craziness¡¨ within us.Their problems just reflect the most fragile part of we human being and the toughness of the reality we are dealing with nowadays.

A story about the tunas,those missing bottles,the fucking chairs,Jaema's flute,Martin's carS,and all those lovely memories...

True love. Is it normal,
Is it serious, is it practical?
What does the world get from two people
who exist in a world of their own?

Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason,
Drawn randomly from millions, but convinced
It had to happen this way-in reward for what? For nothing.
The light descends from nowhere.
Why on these two and not on others?
Doesn¡¦t this outrage justice? Yes, it does.
Doesn¡¦t it disrupt our painstakingly erected principles,
And cast the moral from the peak? Yes on both accounts.

Look at the happy couple.
Couldn¡¦t that at least try to hide it,
Fake a little depression for their friends¡¦ sake!
Listen to them laughing ¡Vit¡¦s an insult.
The language they use-deceptively clear.
And their little celebrations, rituals,
The elaborate mutual routines-
It¡¦s obviously a plot behind the human race¡¦s back!

It¡¦s hard even to guess how far things might go
If people start to follow their example.
What could religion and poetry count on?
What would be remembered? What renounced?
Who¡¦d want to stay within bounds?

True love. Is it really necessary?
Tact and common sense tell us to pass over it in silence,
Like a scandal in Life¡¦s highest circles.
Perfectly good children are born without its help.
It couldn¡¦t populate the planet in a million years,
It comes along so rarely.

Let the people who never find true love
Keep saying that there¡¦s no such thing.

Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

-Szymborska

who exist in a world of their own?

Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason,
Drawn randomly from millions, but convinced
It had to happen this way-in reward for what? For nothing.
The light descends from nowhere.
Why on these two and not on others?
Doesn¡¦t this outrage justice? Yes, it does.
Doesn¡¦t it disrupt our painstakingly erected principles,
And cast the moral from the peak? Yes on both accounts.

Look at the happy couple.
Couldn¡¦t that at least try to hide it,
Fake a little depression for their friends¡¦ sake!
Listen to them laughing ¡Vit¡¦s an insult.
The language they use-deceptively clear.
And their little celebrations, rituals,
The elaborate mutual routines-
It¡¦s obviously a plot behind the human race¡¦s back!

It¡¦s hard even to guess how far things might go
If people start to follow their example.
What could religion and poetry count on?
What would be remembered? What renounced?
Who¡¦d want to stay within bounds?

True love. Is it really necessary?
Tact and common sense tell us to pass over it in silence,
Like a scandal in Life¡¦s highest circles.
Perfectly good children are born without its help.
It couldn¡¦t populate the planet in a million years,
It comes along so rarely.

Let the people who never find true love
Keep saying that there¡¦s no such thing.

Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

-Szymborska

Not a heart broken trip,but it was an extremely cold winter indeed...

A small but lovely exhibition in the town,Beroun,after 5 days working in the darkrrom there,it seems the wine I got at the opening were so strong to me:)Of course,we continue after the exhibition.Pictures were taken before we all got bloodly drunk...

exhibition.Pictures were taken before we all got bloodly drunk...

It was last autumn;somehow I found the pics just now;my cousin from taiwan came to visit;it was the most beautiful time in a year in that lovely town...

A group of friend I met in Moravia,Czech Rep.It seems travelling is a destiny deep in the whole family blood.How does it feel like if ur life is always on the road...

Thanks God! Is it Miracle? We really left Gilvanfa like that? Somehow I couldnt help myself but started to miss all those crazy kids and the other survivals who went back home earlier of course...

A small gypisy village,I was suprised by the toughness marked on all theirs faces,even those kids as well...

A Czech band singing the Chinese rocknd Roll

Home sweet home...

Some people just can't understand that they can't understand what they can't understand.

- Brandon Miller

Shadows on the sun
Another night's begun
It's always dark
In Luna Park
Wind across the moon
Electric storms and soon
A flying spark
In Luna Park

And when we're getting higher
We're happy
Somebody's eating fire
We're happy
The big wheel in the sky
Will make you scream

- Pet shop boys

In Luna Park
Wind across the moon
Electric storms and soon
A flying spark
In Luna Park

And when we're getting higher
We're happy
Somebody's eating fire
We're happy
The big wheel in the sky
Will make you scream

- Pet shop boys

I feel that almost everyone maintains a childlike quality throughout their adulthood. One of the nice things about the puppet form is that it has the ability to communicate with this childlike side of the audience.

- Jim Henson (1936 - 1990)

the audience.

- Jim Henson (1936 - 1990)

The spirit has no voice, because where there is a voice there is a body, and where there is a body space is occupied, and this prevents the eye from seeing what is placed behind that space; hence the surrounding air is filled by the body, that is by its image.

-Leonardo da Vinci

surrounding air is filled by the body, that is by its image.

-Leonardo da Vinci

The whole world is a circus if you look at it the right way. Every time you pick up a handful of dust, and see not the dust, but a mystery, a marvel, there in your hand, every time you stop and think, "I'm alive, and being alive is fantastic!" Every time such a thing happens, Mike, you are part of the Circus of Dr. Lao.

Movie
- directed by George Pál, 1964

"I'm alive, and being alive is fantastic!" Every time such a thing happens, Mike, you are part of the Circus of Dr. Lao.

Movie
- directed by George Pál, 1964

People gathered on Wenceslas Square Nov. 17 to protest the government’s plans to build a U.S. radar base on Czech soil.

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people...

Karel Capek(1890 - 1938)

together with the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdut99AIIPY

To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals.

-Don Schrader

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. "

-Vincent Van Gogh

" By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear. "

- George Herbert

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

~Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues, 30 August 1941