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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Thirty Nine: Juxtaposition – compare and contrast for meaning > Chanting nuns, Ji Ming Temple, Nanjing, China, 2007
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11-SEP-2007

Chanting nuns, Ji Ming Temple, Nanjing, China, 2007

All of these nuns are chanting their prayers, but some are doing it from memory, while another does it from the book. This juxtaposition speaks of differences in experience. The nuns at left have probably been chanting this prayer for some time, while the nun at right has not.

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Phil Douglis19-Jan-2008 05:00
Thanks, Petros. Glad you see the value in this moment.
Petros Labrakos18-Jan-2008 22:51
wonderful capture!
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Phil Douglis24-Oct-2007 00:06
Thanks, Tim -- she does seem tentative, and thus vulnerable. I would think that becoming a nun (she could be a novice) is a very difficult thing. That was what I wanted to say here.
Tim May23-Oct-2007 21:08
I respond the vulnerability of the reading nun. She does seem new at this.
Phil Douglis29-Sep-2007 04:01
Good point, Carol. I almost used this image in my new "rhythm and pattern gallery" but wanted to call special attention to the juxtaposition of those who know the chant by heart and she who does not. You are right about the nature of the chant itself -- it repeats the same rhythmic cadence over and over and over again, for a long, long time.
Carol E Sandgren29-Sep-2007 01:20
I see a wonderful rhythm in the different figures in this composition, which is appropriate as the chants these nuns recite are also most likely rhythmic.
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