Greetings
from Beijing!
We have just returned from a long weekend in
Shanghai, where the favored Mandarin phrase was
"duoshao qian?" or "how much?" Shanghai and Beijing
are vastly different cities, with Shanghai being
much more comprehensible to the Western brain.
Beijing is a huge, sprawling city, with seemingly
random pockets of tall buildings. Smog and dust
from the Gobi Desert make the sky yellow and
the time of day difficult to distinguish. We
have done some explorations of the city, our
first project being a small exploration of our
own choosing, meant to focus our meanderings
and help us become oriented. Soon after this,
the ten of us (and Robert), went up to Peking
University to work with some of Yung Ho's students.
We broke into two teams, each creating a small
structure. Next there was a day with Robert Mangurian
and Mary Ann Ray at Dashanzi, an arts enclave
in the northeastern sector of Beijing, carved
out of warehouses and a steam energy plant. Shanghai
was a good break from the dust and difficult
nature of living in Beijing, but still, getting
on the plane to return to Beijing felt like coming
home.
—Keirsten Deegan
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Postcards
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Keirsten
Deegan (5Mb)
Erin
Putalik (1Mb)
Janelle Moody (3Mb)
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