sitting in china
Hey Josh,
lookit.
photographing a broken chair in a beijing street, he is surrounded by an angry crowd. 'you are a foreigner who is trying to show how backward the chinese are,' an old woman hisses. wolf defends himself, explaining that to her the chair is not ugly but timeworn. the crowd is not convinced. the police are summoned, and smash the chair as a thing of shame. his accusers are half -right. wolf says that he is interested in the 'beauty inherent in used objects.'
* Ray, 9/03/2003 05:08:00 PM
