Paulines and Paulisms

Photograph by Paul Hsu Poetry in Slow Motion and Stillness How do we balance between the body, center our heart, mind, soul, and strength? What does our ballerina dancer's starting stance have to do with being whole? Where do we begin but with sheet music and the feet of dance, dance, revolution? by Paul Hsu 11/22-23/15

Photograph by Paul Hsu The Hsu Review: My Interview This Month Features Visual Artist Dan Johnson Who is Dan Johnson that you are mindful of him? He is an awesome artist who is working out his faith, hope, and love with a contemplative sense of mystery that beauty will save world. Where in the world are you right now? At Home Depot, we are here today and gone tomorrow to gather up materials for Dan's conceptualization-to-installation about questioning whether suburbia's white picket fences and manicured lawns can make up for good neighbors and good old-fashioned neighborliness. What is this artist's work really, ultimately about? Dan figures that his artistic process is about incarnation, liminality, and the sublime. His work explores the meaning and nature of the human body and heavenly bodies by way of the bodily imprints made from the artist as self in relationship to community. Dan's breath, being simply human, slowly begins expanding ...

Photographs by Paul Hsu Dear Dumplings Break open heart's treasure chests. Remember love's ancestors. by Paul Hsu 11-14-15

Photograph by Paul Hsu Choose Your Own Caption 1. Cleaning up after me builds character. 2. Curiosity goes unrewarded. 3. Genius is so often misunderstood. 4. I'm not very happy with you right now. 5. Life gets real messy when you're not around. by Paul Hsu 11-13-15

Photograph by Paul Hsu Birthdays Four and Two Four has to be the first to get through, always in front and just ahead of Two. Four talks enough for a party of Two and likes to tell Two what not to do. Two likes to copy the actions of Four and repeat what Four said right out the door. Two will find ways to antagonize Four; that is what brothers and sisters are for. by Paul Hsu 11/8-9/15

Photograph by Paul Hsu Facial Impression This is my Mona Lisa smile. Walk through the art museum single file. Snap the photograph of Madonna as child. Face the mask of the meek and mild. by Paul Hsu 11-8-15

Photograph by Paul Hsu Facial Recognition This is my superhero scowl. Forget the batty cape and cowl. I wrinkle my nose during face time. Catch you off guard. Photography's a crime. by Paul Hsu 11/6-7/15