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A hike in the Upper Delta just wouldn't be complete without the gorgeous presence of a few Question Mark butterflies, either in their Summer form with the dark bottom wing ends or the soon-to-be appearing Autumn form, with spotted wing ends....see below!
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.
― Albert Einstein
“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
It matters that you don't just give up.”
― Stephen Hawking
"The most important thing is to not stop questioning."
Albert Einstein
While walking through the streets of a small town in Italy, my attention was caught by a pair of eyes. The countenance of the face seemed ready to ask me a question.
NS train 192 moves past what appears to be a strib club (judging by the "maximum exposure" poster), on 6th street in Augusta, GA. I am still questioning what this place has to do with Vegas.
Edited using Flickr user gracebeliever077's equipment, feel free to take a moment to check out his stuff too! ;-)
- Werner Heisenberg.
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As I captured the morning light at Mesquite Dunes, I couldn't help but notice the abundance of vegetation on this side of the dune field. With my 100-400 lens at my disposal, I decided to experiment with isolating some of the plants against the sand layers. Some of the plants appeared to be on the verge of being swallowed up by the sand, and I found a perfect example of this. Luckily, we were the only ones there that morning, and the wind had been strong the previous night, leaving behind detailed patterns in the dunes. I was fascinated by the stark contrast between the plant's ragged appearance and the beautiful, serene, repeating patterns of the sand.
I had to get up at 2.20am to get to Shingle Street for sunrise, I was questioning my sanity for doing so whilst driving there but worth it on this occasion. I was here two years ago and I am amazed how much this beach has changed in that time, the cottage/bungalow was on the sea front on my last visit. I used a pebble to create the ripple in the foreground, this took about eight attempts before I was happy.
There are cold, miserable days when I find myself questioning my motives for braving the elements. The answers don’t always manifest themselves immediately. Then, I wonder… what else might I be doing? Sleeping in a warm, cozy bed? Alas, there will be much too much time to sleep in the future. Living isn’t everlasting, even if life goes on.
A visit today to the Women's Art Collective housed at Murray Edwards College. Thanks to www.flickr.com/photos/lucykjohnstone/ for the head's up.
This is GENERATION
While I was taking this the photographic police in the guise of the plants security guards decided to pay me a visit :-)
Could not believe my luck,i love it when they start questioning you as to why and what your doing and you just look back and say nothing
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Claimed to be on the prime among the many seven pure wonders of the world, you would simply spend a few days questioning at this magical creation of nature. An area delusion explains that the bay was karst have been created when a dragon descended on the ocean to thwart Chinese language invaders and spat out jade stones and pearls that ultimately grew to become the islands. The phrase “Ha Long” which means “descending dragon” is why it’s referred to as so. The geological purpose of it being created by tens of millions of years of mountain formation, encroaching sea and tectonic plate actions is equally awe inspiring.
The seascape is a set of about 2000 limestone karst of all sizes, shapes and shades of inexperienced jutting out the ocean. It’s a web site that you simply’ll see nowhere else on the earth and the sensation of cruising on Halong Bay cruises, irrespective of if the skies are sunny or overcast, is a rare feeling.
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What was his question? When will you refill the bird feeders? I did after the photo. Here in coastal South Carolina, we use about six large bags of seed every spring/summer.
With a high of 40 degrees F tomorrow and the potential of snow, these birds must be questioning their decision to migrate. Lake St. Clair.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.
~ Albert Einstein ~
(My granddaughter hands) Thanks for your visit and taking the time to comment, very much appreciated! "Best In Large"🙋♀️
The freeze at the end of last week really challenged many of the spring flowers. This tulip seemed to be questioning if the time was right, just yet. Of course most things will recover but we are all questioning.
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
Albert Einstein
.....even the young can question what goes on around them, after all they have the right, the earth will be theirs one day.....
Are you questioning your size? If you do, let me tell you that it is not good for your heart and soul!
When I discovered this rock during my last trip to the Californian desert, I simply couldn't resist, even if the alignment required some artistic leeway... 😜
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Single exposure of 10s @ ISO400 during blue hour
21109 Exo-Suit - Alternative Model
Firstly, I'm not that type of guy who purchases multiple sets however the '21109 - Exo-Suit' was one of them along with '70816 - Benny's Spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP' which I got two of (one to display and one for parts.) Both sets got me into designing MOC's so they have a very special place in my heart.
I managed to purchase three copies of the Exo-Suit: one for personal collection with a signed box by Legoloverman and lego_nabii (flic.kr/p/pWVcdC), one I used for parts to build my own Neo-Classic Space MOC's and I still had one sealed. (At the time it was another copy for a parts pack and the cool Minifigures.)
I've been questioning myself for a while now with what to do with the extra copy I own. Yesterday I set myself a task to build an alternative model only using pieces from ‘21009 - Exo-Suit.' inspired by the LEGO Movie (2014) 2-in-1 sets. This model contains about 80% of the pieces from that set. It's inspired by the 'Turtle' included with '21109 - Exo-Suit' but it's a larger version of the turtle that can be piloted by a Minifigure,' so essentially it's a Turtle Exo-Suit but I prefer to call it 'Turtle XL.'
"Questioning the origin of music is like asking why the breeze is soothing, why you shiver in exhilaration when the spray from the waterfall hits you."
-Ilaiyaraaja
- Albert Einstein.
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Last spring, when I planned our trip to Death Valley National Park, I was eager to explore the Artist Drive location. I wanted to capture the best lighting and planned to return multiple times on different days. On our first day, we thought stopping at Devil's Golf Course would be a good idea before heading to Artist Drive for sunset. Unfortunately, the clear sky and flat lighting didn't help. We hiked around the area but were cautious of the sharp spires. However, we soon saw the light change quite dramatically. While looking up sunset times, I had failed to account for the mountains to the west. The sun was going to set earlier than expected. Although I was disappointed about missing Artist Drive, Death Valley never fails to impress. As the sun set behind the mountains, warm golden light illuminated the valley and enhanced the colors of the mountain peaks to the east. With the Devil's Golf Course spires in the foreground, I captured several decent images.
I read a little less this year than usual. I found when my dad passed this summer, I became quickly wrapped up in the funeral and all of the things you have to take care of and then it took awhile to build up my concentration again. I only read 140 books this year, which is far lower than my usual amount of over 200. One year, I read 365 books! So, I slacked off this year. I found myself lingering along different pages and chapters more so than ever. Here are some of my favorite books that I read. They didn’t all come out this year but time is an illusion anyway.
I'd love to hear about all of your favorite reads from this year or other years!
Photo above is a multiple exposure from Iceland..a reading/study room with a landscape photo in honor of my favorite read of the year.
1. Rooms for Vanishing by Stuart Nadler
A real wonder of a book about different possibilities, split timelines, divergent futures confronting the personal horrors of WWII in one of the most creative and thought provoking ways I’ve ever seen. I read several chapters again and again and felt like this was one of the most philosophical and creative books Ive ever read!
2. The Membranes by Chi Ta-wei
Extremely ahead of its time and published originally 30 years ago and translated into English fairly recently. This is a glimpse of a future world which many facets have proved to be fairly accurate predictions but it is also about queer identity and is written sort of like a gay Taiwanese young William Gibson might write it. Wholly original!
3. Is a River Alive? by Robert McFarlane
Yes, a river is very much alive! This is a wondrous work of nonfiction that really explores some diverse and hard to reach areas of nature and its effect on both the nearby inhabitants and the visitors like this author. I loved its sense of environmental advocacy and questioning why we would allot personhood to corporations but not bodies of water, for instance. You really feel like you go on a psychological journey with the author and learn so much between the rivers he explores and the people he meets.
Thanks to my friend Bob for this recommendation!
4. Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
There was a period of my life where I just didn’t quite get Erdrich for some reason…it just didn’t click…but now, I am reading at least a couple of books a year by her. This is really a striking book about desperate women who have lost all body autonomy. Her books are always well written and engaging but this one felt more fast paced and thrilling than the others in style and topic.
5. House of Day, House of Night: by Olga Tokarczuk
I really love how Tokarczuk writes about dreams and mushrooms in this one especially. There is quite a bit about religion as well as physical gender identity within that religious space and a really interesting sense of the people who live in Poland in a border town with Germany and remnants of WWII even. She just has a really poetic way of writing.
6. The Measure by Nikki Erlick
I read this on recommendation from my sister in law in one sitting on the plane to Los Angeles. It is one of the most engaging book I have ever read and a speculative fiction masterpiece exploring the psychology behind lifespan and how society might change if everyone over 21 was sent a single string of a certain length that told them how much longer they would live….but not how they would die. Fascinating storyline and very well executed…I kept wondering how I would handle this situation myself. Another book that made me cry this year…I guess I am a bit of a mess! Apparently, this was an “instant” NYT Bestseller back in 2022 but I hadn’t heard of it until my sister in law mentioned it…I guess I just don’t pay attention to popular culture.
7. Archipelago of the Sun by Yoko Tawada
This is the third book of the trilogy of friends where Tawada explores language and identity within the context of our current world and its insistence on borders and a national identity that not all have and definitely not all share the same level of privilege. These friends are so diverse and interesting and also one of the characters and their transitioning identity is also explored so it is rather complex but also very thought provoking and meditative the way she writes…you just want to linger on certain sentences again and again.
8. Tell Me Everything by Erika Krouse
I read three books by Erika Krouse and loved all three-this one is nonfiction and is about all of the horrific ways a football team takes advantage of, persecutes, and threatens women and how deep the cover up goes. Krouse is helping the investigator while also going through the horrors of her past and personal identity. I was honestly not expecting to find this book as engaging as I did but Krouse is an exceptional author whose short stories Save Me, Stranger have stuck with me for many months and who also writes vivid characters in fiction books (see Contenders). Highly recommended!!
9. The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and his Mother) by Rabih Alameddine
If you ever have the chance to see Rabih Alameddine speak, DO IT! I saw him a few years back after Trump was office the first time around and he spoke about how art including writing is in and of itself an act of resistance. This book is both tragic and funny. There’s an image of our protagonist hero escaping a bunker during a civil war in Lebanon that actually had me laughing so hard I’m surprised I could stop. But, this is also a portrait study of a city and how it changed when the fighting began and equally an exploration of a mother and her gay son as they navigate through their relationship across decades. This is technically fiction but reads at times like an autobiography and, after all, it is a true true story.
10. The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
This book scared the crap out of me and if it had been published when she first had started working on it, it would have been even more terrifying. The premise reads like a Black Mirror story where there are corporations who own and monitor your dreams and might even insert products into them. You can also be suspect based on your dreams but people give up their dreams in desperate situations just to fall asleep….very riveting and terrifying!
11. Poets Square Cats by Courtney Gustafson
I’ve been following this author’s cat rescue in Tucson, Arizona for a few years now but only had part of the story before I read this book. This is the autobiographical back story of the author and cat rescuer herself and the ways in which becoming a full time cat rescuer changed her and perhaps made her more human or at least helped her focus her values and what being alive truly means to her. She is doing very good work and it is important to support this work. This book also gives the back story behind so many important characters, many of whom don’t seem quite so feral when you see their true feline selves in her way. A book to be treasured!
12. Sunbirth by An Yu
I loved her speculative novel Ghost Music and this new one is even more bizarre and has an apocalyptic angle about the sun slowly disappearing and people in this town being enveloped by and exploding with light. None of the characters know what it is like in other cities and towns and some try to escape but, after all, the sun is something we all share so you wonder how it could be different when it is the same major problem occurring. I loved these astounding characters and the sense of imagination here.
13. ACLU The Fight of the Century: Edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman
Never has there been a more important time to stand up for human rights and also understand the history of human rights. I loved some of the authors responding to historical cases that are organized chronologically. Yea Gyasi Viet Thanh Nguyen, Elizabeth Strout, Salman Rushdie, Aleksander Hemon, Brit Bennett, Li Yiyun, Rabih Alameddine, Louise Erdrich, and Anthony Doerr amongst main more give us glimpses into their own personal history and how these cases may have impacted them. Some of these chapters are also critical of the ACLU’s stance too in some aspects in a healthy way as in the case of campaign funding, for example. Regardless, it’s an organization under great threat in America whose continued existence is vital.
14. Bad Bad Girl by Gish Jen
This is partly a memoir of the author but also an exploration of her mother’s past and her ancestry from back in Shanghai. It explores the horrors of the history they lived through while her mother escaped to America but it’s also an engaging imaginary conversation Gish Jen has with her mother who suffered sexism in her own life and treats her daughter as if she should also be quiet and easy and not have so many opinions. But Gish Jen is a phenomenal author of so many great fictional stories exploring culture and identity and she will always be a Good Bad Girl that we should be grateful for. Thank goodness for the women who don’t succumb to societal and family pressures put on us.
15. My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-Wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me by Caleb Carr
An extraordinary nonfiction work that really had me on the edge of my seat several times and crying at others. This is a story of a human who Is battling a personal history with physical abuse and has gone through several surgeries that have been only minimally successful. He is an acclaimed author (I haven’t read any of his other books) and lives alone when he decides to adopt a cat later on in life. I just love how he explores his relationship with his cat and the cat’s personality and sense of adventure. This is actually a story about two wandering souls who find each other and meet in the middle and I do believe that they have found each other again in the ether of the afterlife.
16. Generosity by Richard Powers
I read four different books by Powers this year. If you haven’t read his work, it’s quite masterful! He is one of those authors that has great ideas and can truly craft a complex storyline and bring it all back home in an impressive way. This one is interesting because it focuses on an immigrant who by all accounts should be miserable…she has very little and her parents have been murdered and her brother imprisoned. At one point, she is even sexually molested. Still, throughout all of this, our protagonist, Thassadit Amzwar. remains happy and joyful in a way that others just can’t quite seem to manage or understand. As one might imagine, people try to diagnose her as if something is wrong with her and study her DNA…things go so haywire because other humans literally just can’t imagine how this human could be this happy when the rest of us are so depressed.
17. Bewilderment by Richard Powers
This book really got to me in so many ways…it’s so much about the relationship between a father and a son who is neurodivergent and tests him in so many ways but it is also about biofeedback, flexible thinking, and consciousness after death. It is filled with wonder and sorrow both and really explores the complexity of human consciousness.
18. Beyond Anxiety by Martha Beck
I read quite a few nonfiction books this year related to flexible thinkers, nature, human consciousness existing after death, and octopuses but this one really resonated with me in the sense that it helped me immediately to manage my anxiety and is highly recommended to any artists. There are people in this world who consume art and those who create art and those who do both. I am probably in the latter category because I create art but also really love being part of an international community like Flickr and don’t really enjoy participating in other social media type of sites that seem to focus more on making oneself look cool or rich or just a made up version of a human.
This nonfiction is about how creativity can cancel out the heightened anxiety that threatens to overwhelm us every day. If you start to feel the heightened sensation taking over like you can’t even breathe except to scream, maybe this book is for you. Also, just sitting down and doing art for hours is indeed a luxury and makes it hard to go back to the “real world” of capitalism, etc. but sometimes this is exactly what self care is needed
19. A Love Story From the End of the World by Juhea Kim
I loved the wild weirdness and environmental focus of these short stories set all across the world in this time of climate chaos and political upheaval. Kim is an author and activist with a truly creative spirit!
20. After by Bruce Greyson M.D.
After what happened this summer with my dad passing, I read a ton of nonfiction regarding human consciousness continuing and this one really goes through quite a variety of Near Death Experiences and how it also ends up changing people. It’s a really fascinating look into human consciousness and how it continues from a medical expert. I am fascinated by these human stories and really enjoy the perspective of someone from a background in Science. I do believe that, when the body dies, the consciousness and soul of the spirit does continue and that most of us have already lived multiple lives at this point.
Honorable Mentions:
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
Annihilation by Michel Houellebecq
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home by Stephen Starring Grant
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Overnight wind in the forecast after this most recent storm left me questioning whether we would still have snow clinging to the trees by daybreak. The hesitation resulted in minimal planning and a later than normal start to capture sunrise. I began by heading south down 9D through the towns of Beacon and Cold Spring and noticed the sky getting more and more overcast the farther south I went. The trees didn't have that "fresh powder" feel either, which was really what I was after. I decided to check out Fahnestock SP since I was in the area, but conditions only worsened.
At this point, I had lost almost all hope that I was going to find a location and composition to utilize the "best" light. Given that it was a few minutes before sunrise I jumped on the Taconic, heading north towards home. The farther north I traveled, the better conditions seemed to be. Just for the hell of it I kept going and began "chasing the light" as they say -- something that usually doesn't reveal great results, at least for me anyway.
I found myself in Red Hook at Scenic Hudson's Poets' Walk Park. I had only been here a few times before and knew that park hours didn't line up with a sunrise shoot, but by chance the gate was open. It was already an hour past sunrise, but given the heavy cloud cover, the light was still somewhat soft. I came upon this scene as I approached the rolling meadows and prominent cedar pavilion in the distance. This park definitely has a "storybook" feel to it and is a must to return to in the future.
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing
Albert Einstein
Looking into an uncertain future. Questioning. Doubting. Longing.
As much as we we crave the illusion of certainty, uncertain it stays.
However, that scary not-knowing comes with a positive. We tend to focus on the worst case scenario but remember... your future may turn out even better than your wildest dreams (most likely it will). 🌈
I took this self portrait on the magical little island of Cyprus. According to legends, Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, was born here.
So, may your coming year be full of love and beauty, despite or rather because of the uncertainties of life we're all facing. And may you grow into the god or goddess you were meant to be ✨
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing - Albert Einstein
Radiant and Adoring. Or is the other person questioning? Look at the furrow in her brow. I did not know these woman. Took it in a restaurant in Buenos Aires. A stealth photo which is not what I usually do.
questioning everything again
nothing feels right
(sometimes i feel photo booth is a bit of a cop out)
Shot on iPhone 11 Pro.
Started off the day questioning my life choices as I ran hill repeats in the dark on a rather wet morning. This was the view at the top of the reservoir.
For many in this creation, past and present, Easter is a time for searching and questioning, a time when one might gaze into the distance, looking for something that is hard to see or perhaps difficult to comprehend. In those circumstances we might find ourselves, like this bulldog, staring into the distance, not really sure what we are going to find. But like this bulldog, we do know something is out there, because we can almost smell it, or sense it, in a remarkably mysterious way. What is out there is something that is both incomprehensibly complex and amazingly simple, wrapped into one package. All it takes to find and unwrap that package is a leap of faith. Jump at the chance, while you can.
Arts & Design District
Carmel, IN
2022
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Found in Explore on April 17, 2022.
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
--Albert Einstein
Mt. Hope
San Isabel National Forest
Colorado
Now, I'll give you 'wonky' !
Was questioning the true horizon levels in my scenes, but I know this is definitely how it was :)
Grapevines at Kooroomba Winery, on the way to the lake.
I guess this could be the point of view, if you'd had too much grappa..
No Edits.
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Sometimes we find ourselves in complicated moments in our lives that seem to have no end, in which bad circumstances accumulate, becoming a heavy burden that paralyzes us while the world continues to inevitably revolve around us. Without being a strategist or a psychologist, my recommendation is to try to solve each bad circumstance individually, since the global solution will not come and will lead us to frustration. Be constant, set humble short-term goals, and be patient, and you will see how one by one you are removing those obstacles from the way, and learn to rest, to gain strength with each achievement, and to ask for help, even if you see yourself on the edge.
Today's world is frustrating by default; the patterns to "be happy" that we learned and were written have become obsolete. Much has changed with Covid, seeing how half the world tries to protect itself and the other half incomprehensibly prefers to deny everything, like the child who covers his eyes to feel hidden.
Centuries of science and research are erased from the map in ten minutes through social networks by characters that people simply follow because if things were as they say, everything would be simpler, and for that reason their followers do not consider that before a scientific decision there were hundreds of minds working hard, comparing, arguing, demonstrating, and surprisingly questioning all that weight of reality after hearing an eloquent phrase from the "guru" character without being processed by our survival instinct or our minimal knowledge; I would ask those so-called "skeptics", because they do not doubt the guru, to rest, but getting information, that information that already existed for many years about what a virus is, and how it works, and then if, decide for themselves.
And before the "salt and lemon" game of the news media, check two things that I consider absolutely basic:
1- vaccination does not cure, vaccination does not prevent infections (not the ones existing for now); Vaccination helps your body to defend itself better in case of being attacked by the virus, therefore, this is a personal decision but I think it is an obvious one, since I believe that we all want to survive. 2- The only thing that prevents the virus from spreading, the only thing that will make it weaker, is not establishing biological bridges that it can use; that is, distancing, self-protection and the protection of others, therefore, beyond more or less lax restriction measures, we must put our personal intelligence first: wear a mask and avoid close contacts as much as possible (as much as you want to get contagied). The falling numbers of infection rates are continually altered by changes in the criteria, so they are not valid data; my recommendation is to focus on the number of people in hospitals, in intensive care, how long they stay there, and how many people become chronically ill every day due to "mild symptoms" of which we do not know the consequences, or not...
Good Luck, and of course, this is just a personal opinion, I don't need positive or negative feedbacks about it; I just want to see a human being using all the knowledge and intelligence being used 24/7, not just when the local covid protocol asks for or permits us.
And don't believe me, be critical, get all the information, but you already know "if I want to know about shoes I'll ask a shoemaker"
This is a silver gelatin print with elements of chemigram and lumen printing from my project "Traces".
”Traces” is a series that explores the transformation of identity over time. It delves into the fluid nature of "the self," questioning how much of who we are is shaped by our past versus the influence of fate. Through this work, I sought to deconstruct the familiar image we recognize as ourselves and rebuild it through a variety of alternative techniques. I employed methods such as manipulating the negative, experimenting with alternative chemical processes in the darkroom, and incorporating mixed media on the final prints. The portraits, captured on film first and finally printed on paper, reflect a layered process that blends traditional analog techniques with experimental approaches to reimagine the subject’s identity.
While editing this shot of a Common Grackle, my first thought was of phrase that my granddaughter said often while in her two’s. When she needed you to repeat what you had said she would pivot in your direction, tighten her brow and sweetly ask “Wa-you-say,” as if it were a single word. This phrase made us laugh and warmed our hearts every time! I often thought it should be her Indian name…if she were Indian.
Now that she is a much more mature three, she has refined her speech and I haven’t heard it for a while. I have no doubt that my wife and I will use it the rest of our lives.
Taken at J. Percy Priest Lake, Nashville TN on 09 May, 2022.
China, Beijing, Dashanzi, 798 Art District,
“Liu Ruowang” sculptured interpretation of the song „The East Is Red", a revolutionary song that was the de facto national anthem of the People's Republic of China during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s.
The lyrics of the song were attributed to Li Youyuan, a farmer from the northern Shaanxi province & were adapted from an old Shaanxi folk song about love.
📌..."The questioning" is an eternal gesture of human beings to show humility & to admit that there are limits to human reason.
The folk song "The East is Red" has been sung for over half a century. Sculptural forms of the Qin & Han Dynasties, painted black, red & white, pay homage to the simplicity & nobility of Chinese peasants. Black goes with the quilted jackets of early peasants. Red symbolizes blood & revolution. Movement without recognizable change characterizes the Chinese, who support the revolution & hope for success with united forces.
The Art Zone 798 is located in the Chaoyang District. The three digit number "798" which stands for much more than the numbers for this once booming compound for the State's pre-reform electronic industries, in Beijing these numbers symbolize country's cutting edge art movement by the Chinese vanguard, untied artistic personalities with alternative life goals.
China's artist vanguard has turned an industrial graveyard into an artistic paradise wild & unconquered attitudes breeze inside 798's free & inconsequential atmosphere.
The large area was once a booming compound for the State’s pre-reform electronic industries, the buildings, designed by the former East German Republic & constructed with help from the now former Soviet Union, were vital for China's old industrial development projects & they're just as key to the art scene at 798.
Old Maoist slogans are visible on the ceiling arches. The Dashanzi factory complex began 1951, production in 1957, as an extension of the "Socialist Unification Plan" of military-industrial cooperation between the Soviet Union & the newly formed People's Republic of China.
Attracted by the Bauhaus Style buildings, around 2002 an amazing reincarnation process began when artists' studios started cheerily popping up like daisies over graves.
This area feels an affinity to what can be discovered & sensed along the Left Bank in Paris or around Greenwich Village, NYC. 798 has become the biggest arts area in China & earned great international reputation acclaim in just two years.
📌 …Artists began to gather to re-make the factory spaces, gradually developing them into swanky galleries, hip art centres, artists' studios, design companies, fashion stores, cosy coffeehouses, bistros, restaurant, bars etc. …..& one of my favoured places in Beijing.
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