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Bus Trip

January 18, 2016 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

ARTIST RESIDENCY CHINA — ZHEJIANG, no. 28

Shanghai

My arrival in Shanghai coincided with a previously scheduled trip of Wang’s colleagues and students from the Shanghai University Architecture and Painting departments. They graciously included me in their plans to view the China Academy of Art Thesis Exhibitions in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, a three hour drive north of Shanghai. We departed with overnight bags in two buses from the university at 7:00 AM. Tinted bus windows contributed to the somewhat bleak roadside views seen while traveling north out of Shanghai for Hangzhou.

Elena

with Elena, my stalwart interpreter

Xiangshan bus trip

new housing construction north of Shanghai

Xiangshan bus trip

blue-cast photos through the bus window

Xiangshan bus trip

on the road to Hangzhou

Xiangshan bus trip

hundreds of millions of Chinese live and work on small, hand-tilled family farms, between .75—4 acres

Xiangshan bus trip

farm fields straddled by transmission tower

Xiangshan bus trip

Zhejiang

it takes a lot of electricity to yield 7% annual economic growth — note the optimism of clouds painted on the sky-colored smokestack

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white cranes in flowering trees

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