China "Spirit Matters" Jay Dunn (27 images)

"Spirit Matters"

Clouds of milkweed swirl in a delicate dance around thousands of young pale gingko trees, planted in straight lines marching through the gray spring twilight, a lone elderly violinist, by a city lakeside, accompanies with his plaintive music a memory perhaps too strong for words.

"Spirit Matters" is a group of photographs about the other China, the one of ideas, and history books, of power plays, and colliding giants, the...
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"Spirit Matters"

Clouds of milkweed swirl in a delicate dance around thousands of young pale gingko trees, planted in straight lines marching through the gray spring twilight, a lone elderly violinist, by a city lakeside, accompanies with his plaintive music a memory perhaps too strong for words.

"Spirit Matters" is a group of photographs about the other China, the one of ideas, and history books, of power plays, and colliding giants, the China of brilliance, evanescence and inventiveness. This is what an image maker hopes for, and rarely finds, when the clamor of the city recedes for a second, when the traveler stops moving and starts really seeing.

In the crush of culture and religion these moments have no beginning or end, they are references, and illusions, they flash by and then are gone, a moment's peace frozen in time by a camera shutter then remembered forever. Every photograph here has a story, but then, so do we all, where glimpses of times gone by mix in our imaginations with those of the present and those of our dreams, to yield the magical, the emotional, and the mysterious.

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