Hue Imperial Palace

A throne for a unified Vietnam
A walled citadel
A ringing moat
Faced towards the Huong River (Perfume River)
Courtyards, gardens, pavilions and palaces
The seat of power
Until the French invaded

A most lucrative colonial possession
Mission civilisatrice
Profit and economic exploitation

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Hoi An to My Son

The kings of Champa
A place for worship and sacrifice
Without windows
A place for darkness
Great and powerful
Fanciful mysterious beauty

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U Turn Hoi An

45 million+ motorbikes
To the regulated everything is unpredictable
The survival need is to be predictable
In every move you make
Anticipating the traffic is the task
Become part of the flow
No sudden movements

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Hoi An River Edge

16th century heritage
A peaceful meeting place
Exceptionally well-preserved
Bus, taxi, plane
Throngs of tourists descend
Common sense rules

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Marble Mountains Vietnam

The river is wide
The sea is big
Sharp mountains touch the sky
They stop the clouds
Inside there is a sanctuary
Where beauty is carved

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Getting around Da Nang

The bridge and the pagoda

Tourists passing through

What we wanted to see

They were so kind and reliable

Centuries-old pagodas

French colonial buildings

Breath-taking

The dragon breathes fire and water

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Da Nang Marble Mountains

Metal, wood, water, fire and earth
Hospital for the Vietcong
Buddhist and Hindu grottoes
Sanctuaries of statues and carved marble

King Minh Mang - Ngu Hanh Son
French colonialist - Marble Mountains
A training venue for US Marines
Sacred stone hills

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Da Nang Cham

This incredible story
A phenomenon
The untold story
Wondrous and terrifying

Is your goal the destination point?

Even if it is ever changing and varying

Even if it is never quite predictable

This same road

Being part of it all

And contributing to the greater complexity

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Singapore Vantage Point

See the view as god would
Attempt to look at the world from down
Not as a bird
Not as an organism

As a point of view
Without individual bias
Without vested interest
Without scientific wonder

This vertical direction
When initial perception is inexplicable
Create your mystery
Then resolve your mystery as god would

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The Singapore Point

The point within
Waiting and on hold
Forming symmetric postures
In alignment
In behaviour

Without a lens
Without an opportunity to seek placement
Without permission to stop and ground
Trying to make decisions
Stuck between a moral and directional purpose

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Nightcliff Boom to Bust

Lift and move

When and where there is an opportunity

All things possible have merit

These mechanisms of endeavour

Approving what is to be built or destroyed

Building vertical correlations to meet the passion 

Of each new executive batch 

Making profit by exploiting their exponential potential

Until the boom turns to bust

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