#week 102

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Here is week 102, folks. As always, thank you to these amazing authors who provide me with endless amounts of entertainment. You are all amazingly talented!

Readers-please make sure you show these authors some love!If you’d like to check out my previous posts, follow #rachel’s fanfic lists or search the tag on my blog. Happy reading!

The Christmas You Never Knew You Always Wanted - @mtk4fun

Telling Old Hunger Games Tales - @katnissdoesnotfollowback

Outside Expectations - @katnissdoesnotfollowback

On Borrowed Time - panskiss123

Playlist: Home - hutchabelle aka @hutchhitched

The Reading of Tea Leaves - oh_well aka @thestuckinbed

Epiphany - @sfcbruce

Damaged, Broken, and Unhinged - rosefyre aka @rosefyrefyre & fanficallergy

Coming Home - lizzyvb

Whose Utopia by Cao Fei (曹斐). 2006.

Cao Fei is a contemporary Chinese multimedia artist. She features the mediums of photography, video and performance most prominently in her art practice, often subjecting her work to digital manipulation. Over the past two decades, Cao has participated in international exhibitions, as well as in a number of biennales. She received the Best Young Artist Award and Best Artist Award from the Chinese Contemporary Art Award in 2006 and 2016, respectively.

A 20-minute, single-channel video, Whose Utopia was created during her residency at the Osram lighting factory in Foshan, an industrial city outside Guangzhou. Reinforced with social commentary, Cao’s work is immersed in the aesthetics of Chinese industrialisation and popular culture. The video opens with deadpan documentation of the production line and then transitions to a surreal segment showing the same workers, each transforming into the persona of his or her dreams - illuminating the otherwise invisible emotions, desires, and dreams that permeate the lives of an entire populace in contemporary Chinese society.

Chinese-ness by Wing Young Huie. 2013 – Present. To be published in Fall 2018.

A searching collection of travels, stories, and possibilities, Chinese-ness is Minnesota-born photographer Wing Young Huie’s personal exploration of what he could have been. If he had not been born in this country, if he had not gone to college, if he had married a Chinese woman and settled down, if he had pursued any of a million disparate paths of life. The part-documentary, part-memoir series seeks to resolve Huie’s own cultural dilemma of bridging Chinese heritage and American lifestyle. 

Much like many of Huie’s previous projects, which featured innovative and communally integrative components, Chinese-ness brings both the photographed subject and Huie into equal focus. Huie first photographs a man with a life vastly diverging from his own, then hands him the camera and asks him to photograph Huie wearing his clothes. Many subjects are photographed with boards noting their aspirations or inspirations, demonstrating the gamut of human desire, ambition, and history.

Huie recently received Minnesota’s highest artistic honor, the Mc­Knight Distinguished Artist Award, for his continued work portraying socioeconomic and urban changes. 

BO 3-6 from BO (WAVES) series by Meng Huang. 2018. 

Born 1966 in Beijing, China, Meng Huang is an artist who works primarily with paint. His rendering of natural landscapes, which often evoke the style of pastels or coloured pencil, articulate a unique grasp of hue and shading. In each piece, Meng has embedded his perspective on history, derived from his personal experiences, His choice of subject matter in the BO (WAVES) series, seemingly traditionalistic and unremarkable, mirrors an abstracted reflection on the volatile and impenetrable state of contemporary Chinese society. 

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