NOT TO BE MISSED

Thanks to 6co for the photos!

Firstly, THANK YOU to all who braved the rain and came by!  it was good to hang out in the fresh spring air.

We were told at one point the map wasn’t great - they actually hadn’t even seen it but made it anyway…

Picture: thanks to Chip Rountree!

Public View 2 of 3 from HaoBuHao on Vimeo.

special thanks to DJ Blackie

Location will be announced here at 4pm on the day….

Re:Building a Nation - observations in an urban environment
Photography by Oak Taylor-Smith

Last year saw the Chinese capital city at it’s finest, days were blue and sunny, and flowers were in bloom everywhere.  For months around the great event, picket fenced islands of potted lushness and colour were recruited to the pavements around our neighbourhood, I’m guessing not to feed the butterflies…

        建筑摄影师Oak Taylor-Smith于2005年来北京，几年来他生活在这座城市，享受着这座城市，并想用镜头记录这座城市的变迁。最后，他发现比起荒芜的空地、残破的楼房和空洞而巨大的水泥建筑物来，工地周围的各种质材更有意思，它们散布在这个城市的各个角落，揭示着无处不在的变迁。

        ThisCityArt.org 将展示一系列Oak Taylor-Smith拍摄的照片，首先要展示的主题是“围墙的艺术”。

Landing in Beijing in 2005 and with a background in architectural photography, I wanted, to document the reconstruction of a city I live in and mostly enjoy. However, barren wastelands of demolished buildings and hollow concrete giants were not in the end as interesting as the textures and morphing canvas that surrounded the construction sites and pervade a city in flux.

In a series of posts to ThisCityArt.org I plan to show some of the subjects and resulting images, the first titled ‘The Art of Façade’

Oak Taylor-Smith
TCA