little_tippler

I thought this photo was interesting because, even though it could be a montage, it describes well what I've read and heard on China, particularly with regards to it's currently booming economy. There is a great divide between rich and poor...and it is plainly visible. They are in close proximity to each other. I have met people who have visited China recently due to the boom in the art market and they also took photos like this...the entire neighbourhood of new art galleries is side by side with shanty towns and poverty...I have been told it's quite...confusing, for lack of a better word.

In this shot, the particular irony lies in the Olympic slogan.

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918