Dreams & Goals

Made in Oct,08
Cut out images from National Geographic in the 1975.

In that article which I cut out images from is about China Town in the States, how the Chinese in a foreign place live 30+ years ago. 
I name it Dreams & Goals because Chinese left their homeland with political or financial reasons.The Kung Fu guy in the front is like punching through poverty(which I use a little girl sitting next to a sawing machine in a factory to symbolize it.).
From the top left corner you can see how an ideal childhood could be like heaven, and as your eyes move across the images you can let a story of a life (or a Chinese) could be. 

The Chinese boy in brown suit is a picture taken in his graduation. He's preparing to get into the society and had great expectations for his future. Next to him is an image of a Chinese girl leading a group of elders as a tourist guide, a symbol of youth influencing the society by leading the traditional wisdom into a modern ways. 

There is a lot of contrast of reality and idealistic living. 
On the right bottom corner you can see an elder in bed, he looks like dying but the bright colors make it look cheerful instead of sad. He's lucky he has someone to love or take care of him, while on the top left corner an Chinese elder is having his meal alone and live as a loner. 

There is only one image that I made an exception that may not came from the same magazine (maybe a more recent version). It is the one with a bunch of solders lined up on the field,and there's a woman lie in front of them. This is an image taken from a military training, the woman fainted under the hot summer sun, so they just let her laid in front of the line and left her alone instead of bringing her to a shelter and take care of her.Sometimes I feel like my life is being in a military training, and especially being a woman in this society would be left alone if one could not stand the brutal environment. In contrast to that image I put two guys recording music in a studio room and having fun together.It represents unity and a harmonious environment. This is an idealistic image that I would like to experience, but so far I still have a long way to go before I could enter that room.