Bamboo Cutter
Lin’an, China
2015
This is in fact an out of focus photo of a guy cutting bamboo on a foggy morning, but I like it not so much for it’s actual content as for the abstract arrangement of it’s color shapes and patterns.
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Chinese Checkers
Shanghai, China
2015
The game being played here isn’t actually Chinese Checkers. I just called it that because some Chinese are playing the game and it involved the jumping of and capturing of pieces like the American checkers game does. However after watching for a bit it was clear that it was a lot more complicated than checkers; so much so that the players were taking a long time to make each move. They were also getting pretty continual advice from their audience as to what to do next.
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This Machine Runs on Capitalism
Shanghai, China
2015
The communist party may run the country but it’s pretty clear that the economy runs on capitalism. Business is bustling and entrepreneurism abounds.
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Illiteracy is Bliss
Shanghai, China
2015
Sometimes it’s not what you say but how you say it. I have no idea what this says. They are characters from a bus stop advertisement so I’m sure it’s something mundane or uninteresting. But the eloquent script characters caused me to stop and admire their graceful flowing strokes. This is one instance where there is a true advantage to being illiterate.
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Still Life With Boots and Twine
Shanghai, China
2015
I took this in one of the exhibit rooms at the 188Art Gallery where the joint China-American exhibit is being hung in another part of the building. I don’t think the boots and twine were actually intended to be a work of art, but in a contemporary gallery you just never know. I once saw a nicely arranged array of thermostats on a wall in an American museum that was mounted at the same level as a number of pieces of abstract two and three dimensional art pieces on the same wall. It fit right in so I took a photo of it too.
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