POTD: China Street Life #5-Brooms and Mops

POTD: China Street Life #5China Street Life #5-Brooms and Mops
Jiuquan, China
2016

Not, much actual life evident in this photo of a mop, but it is symbolic of a lot of what goes on outside the shops and stores in the cities. The streets and sidewalks are always very clean and they do all the work by hand, with brooms and mops. I’ve actually accumulated quite a collection of photos of the unique (to an American) types of brooms and mops they use in China.

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POTD: China Daily Life #1

POTD: China Daily Life #1China Daily Life #1
Jiuquan, China
2016

I suppose my Chinese friends would think some of this collection of “daily life” images mundane, or at least uninteresting as it simply shows folks going about their routine daily activities. But to an American it can look quite new and different.

I suspect the Chinese feel the same way about what they encounter when visiting over here–which would certainly explain why I see so many Chinese tourists pointing their cameras in seemingly uninteresting directions. Of course as with Americans, some of the Chinese insist on featuring themselves in an unending stream of selfies in front of random locations. That takes the travel photography product to a whole new level of mundanity, or worse.

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Tsing Tao Exhibition

The exhibit of nine American artists (of which I am one) in Tsing Tao, China is now in place. The exhibit space is made of five shipping containers stacked three high and is located in the parking lot of an upscale shopping area. (Prada, Hermes etc.–names that impress the Fashion Queen.)

I was not at the reception for the show, but by the looks of two of the artists (Parks Reece and Jenny Balisle) who were, a good time was had by all. The other photo shows one of my photos in the exhibition.

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