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07-NOV-2004

Emptyness, Suzhou, China, 2004

Inside those jars should be white wine, but they have been long empty. This shot is about emptyness: an empty house, empty jars, empty life.


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Weiwei 21-Apr-2005 02:43
This picture really makes my hometown a sad "empty" city. Yes, Suzhou has long been on her transforming process, a process that, I regret to say, is lamented by Suzhou natives like me. Hopefully, this is not to be understood as a parochialism. I tend to regard it as a stubborn preservationist view shared by some people from all localities.

Thanks for taking ths picture, I like it. Suzhou in this picture is better than the real one.
Guest 12-Jan-2005 09:08
lonliness and hopless, the old jars seem dead as all the wrest of the building just waiting to collaps on it's self, but wait! There is a little strip of light in the house! is that a bit of hope or is that just the little bit of life left before extingueshing in the dark. Nace framing and good abstraction tourning it in BW Jen.
Guest 19-Dec-2004 16:23
great framing and tones
Guest 18-Nov-2004 15:25
Nice perspective, depth, your photos have that z dimention that's not always to get...
Phil Douglis10-Nov-2004 19:29
***An image full of mystery, Jen. What is in those jars, I wonder. Is this a tomb? Are those ashes of the dead? The ornamental lintel tells me this is just not any door. It is an important door. And those jars must be important as well. Yet the room is so bare, and grim. The sliver of light on the wall points mysteriously to the jars, as if it is asking us to consider them and their contents. The door to the room is flung open, inviting us to enter, but I don't want to. It looks like a room of death -- cold and old and empty, except for those mysterious jars and the sliver of light.
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