#week 117

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Found an older piece this week! :)

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Week 117 Calliope!! (And she has a gun! :D)

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Backs. Gwen Yip. Acrylic on canvas. 2010-2014.

We all carry things on our backs.

Some shoulder burdens and regrets and

others carry dreams and hopes.

Some scarcely bear them and

others delightedly bring them wherever they go.

What do you carry on your back?

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Gwen Yip is an artist who has lived and worked in Shanghai, Amsterdam and London before settling in Brooklyn. She paints the faces of those she knows and the backs of those she doesn’t. Backs is a series of paintings of strangers in London, Hong Kong and New York. The empty space and blurriness of identity in her paintings depict loneliness and isolation in city life.

Images courtesy of Gwen Yip

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Week 117

Banner was made by the talented @everlarkingjoshifer

Here is week 117, folks. As always, thank you to these amazing authors who provide me with endless amounts of entertainment. You are all amazingly talented!

Readers-please make sure you show these authors some love! If you’d like to check out my previous posts, follow #rachel’s fanfic lists or search the tag on my blog. Happy reading!

Cavedweller - jennajuicebox aka @awkwardeverlark

The Quiet Boy - juststella aka @justajjfan

Sharing Small Spaces - @historywriter2007

UNDER SUSPICION - BellaGracie

Quicksilver - gamemakers aka @finnicko-loves-anniec

The Relationship Plan - @herainab

Embracing the Season - mejhiren aka @porchwood

Epiphany - @sfcbruce

Damaged, Broken, and Unhinged - rosefyre aka @rosefyrefyre  & fanficallergy

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Remembering. Ai Weiwei (艾未未). 2009. 

Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist and activist, known for his open criticism of the Chinese government, expressed through both his art and social media presence. 

Among the destruction caused by the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake, an unsettlingly and disproportionately large amount of school buildings had collapsed, a sign of shoddy, corner-cutting government work and possibly corruption. Additionally, the government failed to provide accurate information about the damage and the casualties. This provoked Ai to start a grassroots investigation, with volunteers going to the earthquake site and gathering information door-to-door, in order to on one hand expose the government cover up, and on the other, to properly remember those who were lost in the tragedy. 

Remembering is comprised of 9,000 backpacks on the facade of the Haus der Kunst museum and was a part of Ai’s 2009 exhibition, So Sorry, in Munich, Germany. The name So Sorry refers to the government’s somewhat lackadaisical, blanket response to tragedies like this one. Each backpack represents one lost child; the medium choice of backpacks comes from the distinctly visible schoolbags among the rubble at the earthquake site. From afar, the backpacks spell out Chinese characters that say “She lived happily in this world for seven years”, a somber quote given by a parent who lost a daughter. 

Ai’s quest for justice regarding the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake and the tension it created between him and the Chinese government is documented in his 2011 film, also titled So Sorry. 

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Panchiao by Chang Chao-Tang (張照堂). Photography. 1962.

Born in Taiwan in 1943, Chang has been described as a master in surrealism. His body of work is hailed as an iconic sign of the times during Taiwan’s White Terror period.

The series of photos under the name of Panchiao, the town where Chang was born, often feature silhouettes of a headless person. Chang’s works often showcase a sense of liminality--the state of being in between dream and reality. The surrealist touch delicately distances the undercurrent of despair from an observable normality. Fuzzy, disturbing and nonetheless inviting, the deliberate removal of an easily readable identity in this series is Chang’s allusion to people’s emotional state under the social and political environment of Taiwan during the White Terror Period. Chang’s experience constantly beckoned him to question where the future is heading towards despite the answer would always be dissolved in bewilderment. 

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