This latest bonsai posting of yours reminded me of some of the satellite views of the UK that I've been documenting as part of my research for 'A41 -Through Road', a pinhole photography project that I hope to complete this year.
Your composite aerial image of that elegant curving motorway was not too dissimilar to some of the relevant road sections that I have copied from Google Earth within the last few weeks. I notice that the way you have presented Yingbin Dadao tricks the mind into first 'reading it' as a side elevation... bringing to mind (for me) a wave.
Having given Yingbin Dadao a second look, I also see a caterpillar (hairy cat)... I notice that this relates to 'butterfly' and 'silk road' which were byproducts of earlier postings.
Yinbin Dadao, literally means "VIP-Welcome Boulevard", that's the Meglev train and express way connection the Pudong airport. I very like the idea of a caterpillar, a centipede(in Chinese also have a local name. "one-hundred feet"). But that's not the life size, as it's an aerial view from G.E. which also one point of my idea, namely, this kind of new high way, actually a human-absent scale, in a lose-control situation, the sight-seeing passenger speaking. So my attempt to my work, here the "Suburbia Bonsai", is a new window scene for the passengers no matter new comer or regular visitors, drivers, a voice of fresh will. I would continue the caterpillar and your Way A41 in new blogs. A parallel universe?
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shAw
This latest bonsai posting of yours reminded me of some of the satellite views of the UK that I've been documenting as part of my research for 'A41 -Through Road', a pinhole photography project that I hope to complete this year.
Your composite aerial image of that elegant curving motorway was not too dissimilar to some of the relevant road sections that I have copied from Google Earth within the last few weeks. I notice that the way you have presented Yingbin Dadao tricks the mind into first 'reading it' as a side elevation... bringing to mind (for me) a wave.
Bonsai Beach...?
Sean
Having given Yingbin Dadao a second look, I also see a caterpillar (hairy cat)... I notice that this relates to 'butterfly' and 'silk road' which were byproducts of earlier postings.
Yinbin Dadao, literally means "VIP-Welcome Boulevard", that's the Meglev train and express way connection the Pudong airport. I very like the idea of a caterpillar, a centipede(in Chinese also have a local name. "one-hundred feet"). But that's not the life size, as it's an aerial view from G.E. which also one point of my idea, namely, this kind of new high way, actually a human-absent scale, in a lose-control situation, the sight-seeing passenger speaking. So my attempt to my work, here the "Suburbia Bonsai", is a new window scene for the passengers no matter new comer or regular visitors, drivers, a voice of fresh will.
I would continue the caterpillar and your Way A41 in new blogs.
A parallel universe?
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