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Margaret Grigg Nanjing Friendship Garden | Missouri Botanical Garden

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Margaret Grigg Nanjing Friendship Garden | Missouri Botanical Garden | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang   Just after two hours of walk-about in Union College’s beautiful campus in College View neighborhood in southeast Lincoln, I was already scouting around like a sockless Sock Monkey, hoping to find a spot warm enough to cuddle up. It’s a 40-degree 4 p.m. and an unavoidable freezing process was well underway. Let’s all...

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The Boathouse in Forest Park | St. Louis, Missouri

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The Boathouse In Forest Park | St. louis, Missouri | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang   There is this peculiar association between Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s short story Kappa and the Boathouse café in Forest Park in my sleep-deprived mental system. Maybe I saw a kappa when I sat in a comfy chair in the Bouthouse café in a hot summer day, day-dreaming and sipping arctic ice tea (extra-ice, of course)...

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Bell Tree | Missouri Botanical Garden

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The Bell Tree | Missouri Botanical Garden | St. Louis, MO | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang The Bell Tree Sculpture in the Missouri Botanical Garden was pretty popular. While waiting patiently in the line mostly consisted of giggly five-year-olds and their parents to play with the sculpture, I, for some reasons, began to gleefully hum Bob Dylan’s “All I Really Want to Do” in my nearly-sunburned head. I...

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Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

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Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis | 2009 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang   The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis felt more like a minimalistic boonies when I entered it. It was an eventless Wednesday afternoon after all. I decorously circled through the group exhibition, titled “For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there,” like a civilized zombie hungry for the art. I...

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Laumeier Sculpture Park

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  My mind was unfrozen by the unusually warm November morning while driving toward Laumeier Sculpture Park located in the outskirt of St. Louis. Pristine visual memory of Louise Bourgeois’s enormous spider sculpture flashed with her remark, invading my abysmal sense of direction, bit by bit.   "Emotions are universal. The artist has access to his unconscious through his work. This is a gift, and it is magic. My work...

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The Fabulous Fox Theatre St. Louis

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The Fabulous Fox Theatre - St. Louis | JKChang.com

The Fox Theatre, located at 547 N. Grand Blvd. in download St. Louis, was built by William Fox in 1929 as one of five Fox Theatres constructed during that era to showcase films by the Fox Film Corporation. The building, as known as “The Fabulous Fox”, was designed by C. Howard Crane and featured a Wurlitzer pipe organ. The Fox Associates initiated the renovation process around 1981 and the theatre...

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