Distance, Shanghai, China, 2005 by Jennifer Zhou

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14-APR-2005

Distance, Shanghai, China, 2005

Getting water for his pills, it is now the brother who turns away from his sister. After an argument, they retreat to their own space, as if distance will somehow lessen the pain and frustration they must feel.

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Jennifer Zhou		18-Apr-2005 12:48
Hi Tim, thanks for coming by! I think she is still not quite adapted to the new situation, even keeping reading and learning everyday, and active in all kinds of Party meetings at age of 90. Many new things just don't make sense to her, however none of that can change her devotion to the Communism.

Tim May		16-Apr-2005 17:19
I am also am drawn to the way that she is bowing - there is a sense of reverence here that I think the Maoist have - I wonder how your grandmother has adapted to the changing nature of Mao's revolution. Is she still revering the old beliefs, or the current ones?

Phil Douglis		16-Apr-2005 05:08
****Now the tables are turned. He is large, she is small. You use the wideangle perspective to stress his grim, almost disdainful expression. She, meanwhile, has retreated in space to become an abstraction. Her beliefs seem not to matter to him at all, nor his to her.

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