Memory Crafting in Hong Kong

 Sunday 23  May 2021, Update on projects: It's been another interesting year. Janet has started a fine art degree at Hong Kong Art School. At the beginning of the year we worked on adapting her Bestiary to an Art History timeline. Then we worked on various school projects. Recently we have been reading through the book and reviewing our memory palaces, which still only go up the the first 20 countries. The amount that fits in the house.  Today we tried a new thing.  I bought some nice wooden toy shapes in Muji about a year ago with the intention of carving them into tactile objects.  Recently I've been intending to record the hormone yoga poses I'm learning with my friend Lisa but I haven't done the work to set it up. Then Janet and I together started a different class with Lisa (who is in fact primarily an incredibly talented historical bassoon player, living in Belgium and now teaching on Zoom). She is teaching us Egyptian folk/belly dance and we are absolute beginner

Today is Sunday 19th July 2020. We started on 12th July 2020. 9 August,  We are up to 20. We've written them down and Janet is remembering them without looking.  The first 10 locations are in the living room which is a den of criminals who all come out to destroy and battle as soon as everyone leaves the house. There are a few gods who are powerful but not so evil.  11-15 are in Janet's room.  16 - 20 are in Dad's room.  1   China [b] 1,403,583,800 18.0% Heaven fairy visiting her mortal lover.  She doesn't realise that he died thousands of years ago.  Front door 2   India [c] 1,364,844,721 17.5% A book about two Indian lovers, a Bollywood Love Story Movie.  3   United States [d] 329,974,375 4.23% TV Dr Octopus is fighting Kali      4   Indonesia 269,603,400 3.46% Voldemort in the Indonesian Cupboard because the clothes are from Indonesia and Voldemort is hiding there, it's the last place anyone will look.  5   Pakistan [e

This is a Tanya and Janet project. We started last week, Sunday 12th July. But we've been thinking about it for a long time. Now all the school work is done, we are ready.  We are starting with the Wikipedia list of countries by population.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population And Lynne Kelly's / Medieval and Renaissance directions to group items in fives.  Last week Tanya placed the first 20 countries and Janet placed 10 in her apartment.  We each drew maps of our homes and started with China at the front door. Which is topical.  Janet's focus is on terrible people. She's filled her apartment with Nemeses and Gods.  Tanya is not too focussed. More with situations and puns.  I broke some rules in the flow of the locations and those mistakes are a bit of a pain now. But I don't want to change them. I'll need to create a narrative to explain them. The 'line' of my trip doubles back and crosses itself a few times,