據說 Rainbow 曾經是我的學生，但我完全想不起。看過她的作品後，反而我想成為她的學生。
－－小克

我在廿零歲時是畫不出這麼好的作品的，我折服、又激動，超新星爆發了!!
－－楊學德

老了的故事不等如它將要消亡，畫畫正好點活了它 ,令它有跡可尋。
－－智海

在日常生活裡，你可有細心留意身邊事物的變化？二十多歲的李香蘭某天發現居住的禾輋村內一株陪伴她成長的木棉樹被砍掉了。世事無常, 觸發她逐一採訪一班似是熟悉卻又陌生的老街坊，記下他們的小故事，並以別樹一幟的畫風及文字創作成《上・下禾輋》。

於艺鵠舉行的「上下斜睥：李香蘭《上・下禾輋》原稿展」是這故事的延續。

是次展覽除了展出部份在書中已出版的原稿外，更會展出不少從未曝光的畫作。當中包括造型怪誕卻又讓人感到無比溫暖的家人及一幅幅活脫脫的村民肖像；投射作者對愛貓思念的畫作；被遺忘或己消失的風景；甚至少女在上下禾輋村的戀愛插曲… 等等。李香蘭的作品率真可愛，看罷不禁令人會心微笑，欣賞其作品絕對是一種令人快樂的經驗。

李香蘭想藉今次展覽重現作品最原本的色彩，讓在水泥世界生活的都市人感受一下禾輋村的鄉土風情。屆時亦會出售繪本、部份原稿作品與特製精品來支持她的創作生活。

In daily life, have you ever paid attention to the changes around you? Having discovered that one of the cotton trees which grew up with her was suddenly cut down, Rainbow Leung, who is still in her 20s, was inspired to conduct interviews in her neighbourhood and jot down the inside stories to accompany her unique paintings in her book.

This exhibition is the extension of the story. Other than displaying some of the manuscripts included in the book, this exhibition will also show some of her unpublished art works and writings. Her art productions includes some seemingly bizarre yet heart-warming portraits of her family members and villagers; paintings dedicated to her pet cat; those views which are abandoned; sceneries which have disappeared; or even a love story of a teenage girl happening in the Village… Rainbow’s sincere productions engage many audiences , for appreciating her works is such a pleasant and enjoyable experience.

Rainbow hopes to present the true colour of her work in this exhibition; to introduce her beloved Wo Che Village to the public; the picturebook, part of her manuscripts as well as some products will be selling in the exhibition to support her future artwork production.

李香蘭｜Rainbow Leung
自小於下禾輋長大, 祟尚自由奔放的生活, 並把這種生活態度轉化成藝術風格。最喜歡畫人,捕捉人臉上的動態, 被畫的人會大叫救命, 圍觀的人卻捧腹大笑。

Rainbow grows up in Wo Che Village, pursues the free lifestyle and integrates this philosophy of life into her art style. Her passion for drawing portraits and capturing the different motions on others’ faces is insatiable, those being drawn may feel desperate but the passers-by will certainly laugh their heads off.

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08年12月至09年9月舉行的（張愛玲）「傳奇讀書會」已完滿結束。我們覺得有需要繼續這「文本細讀」的功夫，故決定以黃碧雲於1991 年寫就的短篇小說集《其後》為今次細讀對象。仍然由小西、梁偉詩（Jass）等主導，約每兩個星期會面一次，就《其後》中的小說一篇一篇的作報告。讀書會屬半公開性質，如有興趣加入或旁聽，請與艺鵠聯絡。

關於《其後》

《其後》是黃碧雲的第一部小說集。如此年輕，如此才情橫溢，卻又如此蒼涼酸楚，這「揚眉女子」也算是世紀末香港的獨特產物了。

在她小說中，生命都是飄泊無依的，在外部世界糾纏，在內心世界煎熬，總是互相糾纏煎熬著，一起沉淪、失落，只有過去，沒有將來。

小小的歡喜，沉重無邊的痛苦，生命便是以巨大的痛苦換取微不足道的喜悅。到最後連喜悅也不是所求的了，只剩下對死亡的期待。

在她的世界裡，死亡並非人世巨創，而只是一種淡淡的憂傷，或一個蒼白委婉的手勢，好像有個人漫步走進濃霧，漸漸就不見了—–他見不到別人，別人也見不到他。人天睽違，也不過像他在濃霧深處輕嘆了一聲，如此而已。

友情會過去，親情也會，愛也是一點一滴在消逝的東西，甚至恨也是，只有死亡，是最終要走上去的生命祭壇。

其後便甚麼也沒有了。

媚行女子－黃碧雲

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08年12月至09年9月舉行的（張愛玲）「傳奇讀書會」已完滿結束。我們覺得有需要繼續這「文本細讀」的功夫，故決定以黃碧雲於1991 年寫就的短篇小說集《其後》為今次細讀對象。仍然由小西、梁偉詩（Jass）等主導，約每兩個星期會面一次，就《其後》中的小說一篇一篇的作報告。讀書會屬半公開性質，如有興趣加入或旁聽，請與艺鵠聯絡。

關於《其後》

《其後》是黃碧雲的第一部小說集。如此年輕，如此才情橫溢，卻又如此蒼涼酸楚，這「揚眉女子」也算是世紀末香港的獨特產物了。

在她小說中，生命都是飄泊無依的，在外部世界糾纏，在內心世界煎熬，總是互相糾纏煎熬著，一起沉淪、失落，只有過去，沒有將來。

小小的歡喜，沉重無邊的痛苦，生命便是以巨大的痛苦換取微不足道的喜悅。到最後連喜悅也不是所求的了，只剩下對死亡的期待。

在她的世界裡，死亡並非人世巨創，而只是一種淡淡的憂傷，或一個蒼白委婉的手勢，好像有個人漫步走進濃霧，漸漸就不見了—–他見不到別人，別人也見不到他。人天睽違，也不過像他在濃霧深處輕嘆了一聲，如此而已。

友情會過去，親情也會，愛也是一點一滴在消逝的東西，甚至恨也是，只有死亡，是最終要走上去的生命祭壇。

其後便甚麼也沒有了。

媚行女子－黃碧雲

黃碧雲〈無所提示〉 from Horizon littlelittle.org on Vimeo.

Richard Sennett
The Craftsman
Paperback $145
ISBN: 9780300151190 Published March 2009

舊了壞了的東西，我們多數會棄掉。逛街的時候，我們多數會選購新款的產品，只要好樣價錢平就是。然後產品愈出愈新愈快，我們變相只為了消費而消費。再然後買回家的東西未舊未壞我們便想棄掉，因為每天的廣告都叫我們要勤力消費……這是現代人的生活寫照，這是資本主義社會的基本運作模式。

作為研究現代社會人倫關係的專家，Sennett 在本書提出手作／工匠在現世代的社會意義：個性化的設計、作為產品創造者而建立的尊嚴、公匠與用家之間的直接溝通與情味。這些珍貴的倫理價值都被工廠大量生產模式的規格化、去人性化所取代。由古至今，作者舉出大量例子只想讀者明白一件事：以自己雙手創造物件，重新發現自我與世界。

As Richard Sennett makes clear in this lucid and compelling book, craftsmanship once connected people to their work by conferring pride and meaning. The loss of craftsmanship—and of a society that values it—has impoverished us in ways we have long forgotten but Sennett helps us understand.
— Robert B. Reich, Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley, and author of Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life

The Craftsman is [an] ambitious, thought-provoking look at how we humans connect with, relate to, and understand the world around us. . . . Sennett examines the making of things through the lenses of three different focal lengths—craftsmen, craft, and craftsmanship—each of which merits its own section. Within these overlapping perspectives, the view of the landscape slides from hand to human to humankind.
— Wayne Curtis, American Scholar

Defining craftsmanship far more broadly than “skilled manual labor,” Richard Sennett maintains that the computer programmer, the doctor, the artist, and even the parent and citizen engage in a craftsman’s work. Craftsmanship names the basic human impulse to do a job well for its own sake, says the author, and good craftsmanship involves developing skills and focusing on the work rather than ourselves. In this thought-provoking book, one of our most distinguished public intellectuals explores the work of craftsmen past and present, identifies deep connections between material consciousness and ethical values, and challenges received ideas about what constitutes good work in today’s world.

The Craftsman engages the many dimensions of skill—from the technical demands to the obsessive energy required to do good work. Craftsmanship leads Sennett across time and space, from ancient Roman brickmakers to Renaissance goldsmiths to the printing presses of Enlightenment Paris and the factories of industrial London; in the modern world he explores what experiences of good work are shared by computer programmers, nurses and doctors, musicians, glassblowers, and cooks. Unique in the scope of his thinking, Sennett expands previous notions of crafts and craftsmen and apprises us of the surprising extent to which we can learn about ourselves through the labor of making physical things.

Richard Sennett is professor of sociology at New York University and at The London School of Economics. Before becoming a sociologist, he studied music professionally. He has received many awards and honors, most recently the 2006 Hegel Prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities and social sciences.

伸延閱讀｜of related interest

Alain De Botton
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Hardcover $190
ISBN: 9780375424441 Published June 2009

We spend most of our waking lives at work–in occupations often chosen by our unthinking younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our occupations mean to us.

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern workplace, beautifully evoking what other people wake up to do each day–and night–to make the frenzied contemporary world function. With a philosophical eye and his signature combination of wit and wisdom, Alain de Botton leads us on a journey around a deliberately eclectic range of occupations, from rocket science to biscuit manufacture, accountancy to art–in search of what make jobs either fulfilling or soul-destroying.

Along the way he tries to answer some of the most urgent questions we can ask about work: Why do we do it? What makes it pleasurable? What is its meaning? And why do we daily exhaust not only ourselves but also the planet? Characteristically lucid, witty and inventive, Alain de Botton’s “song for occupations” is a celebration and exploration of an aspect of life which is all too often ignored and a book that shines a revealing light on the essential meaning of work in our lives.

Robert B. Reich
Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
Paperback $135
ISBN: 9780307277992 Published September 2008

From one of America’s foremost economic and political thinkers comes a vital analysis of our new hypercompetitive and turbo-charged global economy and the effect it is having on American democracy. With his customary wit and insight, Reich shows how widening inequality of income and wealth, heightened job insecurity, and corporate corruption are merely the logical results of a system in which politicians are more beholden to the influence of business lobbyists than to the voters who elected them.

Powerful and thought-provoking, Supercapitalism argues that a clear separation of politics and capitalism will foster an environment in which both business and government thrive, by putting capitalism in the service of democracy, and not the other way around.

David Byrne
Bicycle Diaries
Hardcover $180
ISBN: 9780670021147 Published September 2009

著名跨媒界藝人David Byrne 帶我們坐在單車座上看世界。由八十年代起便以單車代步的他穿梭各大城市，體驗到更多每個城市的獨特規劃、肌理、節奏、人情與秘密。當歐美政府與人民都身體力行推動可持續城市發展之時，亞洲城市何時才會正視生態問題？

A renowned musician and visual artist presents an idiosyncratic behind-thehandlebars view of the world’s cities

Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago, he discovered folding bikes and started taking them on tour. Byrne’s choice was made out of convenience rather than political motivation, but the more cities he saw from his bicycle, the more he became hooked on this mode of transport and the sense of liberation it provided. Convinced that urban biking opens one’s eyes to the inner workings and rhythms of a city’s geography and population, Byrne began keeping a journal of his observations and insights.

An account of what he sees and whom he meets as he pedals through metropoles from Berlin to Buenos Aires, Istanbul to San Francisco, Manila to New York, Bicycle Diaries also records Byrne’s thoughts on world music, urban planning, fashion, architecture, cultural dislocation, and much more, all conveyed with a highly personal mixture of humor, curiosity, and humility. Part travelogue, part journal, part photo album, Bicycle Diaries is an eye-opening celebration of seeing the world from the seat of a bike.

David Byrne, a cofounder of the musical group Talking Heads, David Byrne has also released several solo albums in addition to collaborating with such noted artists as Twyla Tharp, Robert Wilson, and Brian Eno. His art includes photography and installation works and has been published in five books. He lives in New York and he recently added some new bike racks of his own design around town, thanks to the Department of Transportation.

伸延閱讀｜of related interest

Mark Richardson
Zen and Now: On the Trail of Robert Pirsig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Paperback $130
ISBN: 9780307390691 Published September 2009

Part travelogue, part meditation on an author and his work, Zen and Now is a tribute to a beloved American book and the landscape that inspired it.

Since it was first published in 1974, Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance has become a modern classic, a beautifully constructed blend of travel narrative and philosophical inquiry that has moved generations of readers. One of those readers was journalist Mark Richardson, who after rediscovering the book at middle age, decided to retrace Pirsig’s journey. From the back of his own motorcycle, Richardson investigates what happened to the reclusive Pirsig, his family, and the people described in the book in the years after its surprising success.

Jeff Mapes
Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities
Paperback $150
ISBN: 9780870714191 Published March 2009

In a world of increasing traffic congestion, a grassroots movement is carving out a niche for bicycles on city streets. Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities explores the growing bike culture that is changing the look and feel of cities, suburbs, and small towns across North America.

From traffic-dodging bike messengers to tattooed teenagers on battered bikes, from riders in spandex to well-dressed executives, ordinary citizens are becoming transportation revolutionaries. Jeff Mapes traces the growth of bicycle advocacy and explores the environmental, safety, and health aspects of bicycling. He rides with bicycle advocates who are taming the streets of New York City, joins the street circus that is Critical Mass in San Francisco, and gets inspired by the everyday folk pedaling in Amsterdam, the nirvana of American bike activists. Chapters focused on big cities, college towns, and America’s most successful bike city, Portland, show how cyclists, with the encouragement of local officials, are claiming a share of the valuable streetscape.