Dancing with red fans is a popular form of exercise in China’s parks. I abstract this woman, dancing in Nanjing’s Stone City Park, by photographing her from behind and backlighting her, so that the fans become almost translucent. Dance itself is made up of rhythmic, repetitive moves, and I’ve tried to emphasize that in this image. One side of the photo repeats the other – with her arms and hands held at the same angles, and with the fans repeating each other’s arcs as they move through space. Within each fan, there is a pattern of wooden supports. The transparent arcs that form around these patterns repeat the arcs of the billowing outer edges of the fans.