
Art Seeker Stories
Emma Hill: an artist voyage of discovery, documenting memory, finding truth, and expressing the hope of the journey. Here on this podcast, I’m seeking stories of art, sharing creativity, inspiration and hope, of cultural differences and diversity, welcoming inclusivity within art. In the millennium I travelled worldwide, 20 years on I'm re-visiting my journal: Art Culture Vulture, Travels of an Art Seeker. Art at the heart of everything become a universal language, communicating cultural diversity and differences without the barriers of speech and geographical borders. Art united people sharing new, rich perspectives, focusing on identity, community and place while sharing their truthToday I’m continuing these conversations, seeking artist interviews, finding new stories worldwide online, in the wake of the worldwide pandemic, Covid-19. Today art has never been so important, for expression, education and our own mental health and well being.
Art Seeker Stories
EP 34: Hong Kong : War Warriors, Little Venice and the Big Buddha : 01:09:2000
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Episode 34
Art Seeker Stories: A postcard from Hong Kong, Day 1 :
My artist journey and travels as an art seeker, a culture vulture, a 20 something trolly dolly. My diary edit, nostalgically looking back, 22 years to the day - today.
Despite 4am tornado warnings I take a ferry to Lantau Island and visit Tai O, Asia’s little Venice and the Big Buddha at the Po Lin monastery, shrouded in fog.
22 years later, I reflect on the connection between art and religion, by expression, in the essence of spirit.
Names and Places, notes:
Tai O
Kwan Tai Temple
Kwan Tai, Warrior and God of War
Lantau
Po Lin Monastery
(The Big) Tian Tan Buddha
Three Trikaya Buddha
Hong Kong Island
China Jump