The Engleson Files

One final painting project I have during my time in China is to try and find an artist who can capture the pure essence of the ‘Dogs Playing Poker’ painting and transfer it into ‘Dogs Playing Mahjong.’ I want to try and encapsulate everything I can of the game of Mahjong and Chinese society and have it show in this painting: the smoking, the rolled up shirts, the yelling, ganbei glasses, bijou bottles, manbags, large tinted sunglasses, government propaganda, the shang ting le (game point in mahjohn) - I want the whole gammit. Now, I have no idea how I am going to convey all of these ideas and have the artist understand and appreciate the concept of the dogs painting as well (a translator will most definitely be recquired!) I am going to try my artist guy downstairs at Song hai li and see if he is up to the challenge, but for now, if any of you have ideas that you feel are necessary for this painting please drop me a line.