It does strike as impossibly shiny and symmetrical that this structure riddles its on-looker with the representation of a structure that provocatively combines doubtful influences of Soviet Empire architectural style with unexpected use of red color in places that work their viewerly effect as colorful under-girds on a cream-cake-like three-level structure having perhaps its functional uses, but as likely being just a cynosure on a public square in one of these countless cities that traveling in-land might reveal to a browsing gaze traversing urban geography yet to be mapped through the movements of everyday life experienced in transit.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Shanghai Art Biennial Image Browsing: Dazzled
This is more of a reflection on what happens when social change occurs at warping speed, when sensibilities jumble together to create an overlapping geography of urban memory, when fresh combinations of materials, people and spaces draw in with their dazzling power the occasional virtual flaneurs through the traces of past events transpiring as copies without negatives of digital photography in image databases that spell out the urban experience of the present moment with tags, links and aliases that allow unexpected sides of places near and far to come forth.
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