

Living Feral – 2015
Living Feral 2015 - Colette Hosmer I once lived in an old villa on a small island in the South China Sea, home to turn-of-the-century art deco mansions (many of them abandoned), prized Banyan trees...
My Gulangyu Studio – 2009
My Gulangyu Studio 2009 - Colette HosmerThe small room of the old servants quarters had been thoroughly abandoned. This was evident from the years of accumulated dirt and the smell of mildew and old...
Me & The Tiny Island of Gulangyu in China – 2009
Me & The Tiny Island of Gulangyu in China 2009 - Colette Hosmer A LITTLE HISTORY I arrived on November 3, 2009, for my ninth extended stay in China. I have been invited to stay at the house of a...
Caged Bird – 2008
Caged Bird 2008 - Colette HosmerFrom my position on the worn, overstuffed chair I can see outside the window and through the bars of my second story balcony to a wall of similar Chinese apartments...
Hutong Living – 2008
Hutong Living 2008 - Colette Hosmer Three distinct cries, each formed from an entire lungful of air, woke me from an untroubled sleep. Each long-drawn-out wail was part shriek but forced from the...
Hungry, Tired and Lonesome – 2006
Hungry, Tired and Lonesome 2006 - Colette Hosmer I'm tired tonight, and a little lonesome. After being out most of the day (and lacking the energy to venture any further) I wander down the street to...
The Pig Factory – 2006
The Pig Factory 2006 - Colette HosmerLi Wen’s “contact” met us outside the gate of the Pig Factory. He said something to the guard, which I later learned was, “This woman is going to buy a lot of...
Professionals – 2006
Professionals 2006 - Colette Hosmer I detour to meet the old man who is rushing to head me off – scuffing his shoes on the granite path with each short step. His white chin whiskers are sparse...
Notes From The Marathon Man – 2006
Notes From The Marathon Man 2006 - Colette Hosmer A red inflated arch spans the walking path that runs alongside the beach park near my apartment. Huge speakers blast march music. An announcer...
EELS Xiamen, China 2006
EELS Xiamen, China 2006 - Colette Hosmer I enter the big local market through a narrow alleyway lined with peddlers, selling everything the sea and earth can locally provide. Tomorrow is Spring...
Pig to Market – 2006
Pig To Market 2006 - Colette Hosmerwake to an urgent knock, "Hurry", Li Wen says in a forceful whisper, his face close to the door, "we sleep late, market boy come for us!" As planned, "market...
Bus to Porcelain Town – 2006
Bus to Porcelain Town 2006 - Colette HosmerThe morning was heavy, dark and waterlogged. I suggested we buy extra bottled water for the five-hour bus ride into the mountains. “Not good,” Li Wen...
Introduction To Xiamen – 2005
Introduction To Xiamen 2005 - Colette Hosmer My daughter, Sam, and I flew into Xiamen on a frigid Siberian tail wind, December 15, 2005. Ineke Gudmundsson, the Director of the Chinese European Art...
The Seal – 1996
The Seal 1996 - Colette HosmerAlthough I enjoy walking the Oregon coast in winter I found this January day, featuring snow and gale-force winds, to be challenging. As I pulled on layers of clothing,...
A Maasai Goat Feast Tanzania – 1992
A Maasai Goat Feast Tanzania 1992 - Colette Hosmer We turn off the beaten track -- way off -- and continue for another couple of hours through lung-choking volcanic dust as fine as flour. Worn out...