I was a lucky participant of the Asia-Link Sketchwalk in Taichung, Taiwan in 2018. When I go there, Kumi introduced her friend Elaine, who lives in Taichung. She kindly met me and introduced her friend Claire to get to Taomi, where I wanted to go to see eco-village's frogs after the Sketh-Link. So, thanks to these people it became a sketch exchange in the famous eco-village Taomi , Puli Township, Taiwan.  ←With Elaine Jean on the first day of Sketch-Link in Taichung Claire picked me up in Puli and made a favor to me, introducing her hometown and friends. My goal was to see the frogs, for which the Taomi village is famous, so we go to Frog Grandma's hostel together with the local sketchers group. There we sketched the garden of the Grandma. It was full of flowers and butterflies. The leader of the sketching group is the oldest sketcher in Puli. His name is Sun Shao-Ying (or Sun Sensei, how the group called him). Among his works is documentation of the Jiji earthq...

今日、岩瀬の山で、２つの木が無くなりました。この木に、愛着があります。人間だからかも、森から一つの木と親しくなって、思い出作って、無くなった、悲しむ。さよなら。 一年前、昨日、今日、スケッチを書きました。 Farewell to the trees on the mountain in Iwase A week ago a neighbor told me that this is a big tree, and the smaller tree attached to it will be cut down. Their roots destroy the foundation of the house nearby, and the owner, without hesitation, decided to cut them. These trees are my old acquaintances. I see them every time I go upstairs. There is something special about them, their singularity has created an aura of attention around them. Their color is different, I like to look at it. In the warm setting sun, in the afternoon, on a clear day. Blue, with orange coming out from under the bark, and brown, with greenish veins. The color of mushroom hats? And what a texture they have! One is smooth, the other is all wrinkled. Like two characters, but grown together in one life-striving desire, by the will of fate, on the one piece of land. I drew their sketch a ye...