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Let the rivers be rivers, Let the mountains be mountains

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

This is kind of old news, but better late than never, eh?  This is an environmentally aware animation that until recently was playing at the People’s Square subway station.  I used to see it on my daily commute in the massive corridor between Line 1 and Line 2, where it would be simultaneously be playing on a dozen screens for the tens of thousands of people that switch lines there.  Something about the austere black and white animation and its similarity to the Chinese shanshui (mountains and rivers) landscape painting style would always bring my eyes to it.  People’s Square is a capitalistic maze of color and flashing lights, a sad black and white depection of the environmental degredation happening in the world was always a welcome change for me.  It was also nice knowing that someone here in Shanghai was trying to get the message across that we are destroying the natural world.  Today I saw a write up on it over at the Neocha Edge blog, which, by the way, is a fabulous place to see and read about all types of contemporary art coming out of China.