my china - the faces of china/ august 2006 , photos: yafa kfir & gili dekel my china
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My China - The faces of China/August 2006, Photos: Yafa Kfir & Gili Dekel
My china
Home page: www.yafakfir.com
Chine is big, very bigImmense and mighty
all the adjectivesof size and power
fit it. This vast China
is made of people.
Each one has his own dreamhappiness, pain and sorrow Fear of the government
and hope.
Giving people a face - that‘s what I like
Here, I brought fewof the men and women
that I engravedon the memory card
of my camera
People. Like you and me – and different.
I walked among them, a stranger.
I saw human beingsI took a moment of their happiness, their
freedomof their mundane and the gleam of dream in
their eyes
Brining it all to you, my friends
This country is so big and impressive:Fascinating with its history and
spaciousnessThere are men, women and children
They do not look like each other,There are tribes, different types of
ChineseBrown, yellow, faired skin
Thin, fat…
In China art is different,different music
special foodand lots of people
more than I ever saw.
This is China whose future is hastily built - right before our eyes
Devouring metal, glass and stone from all over he globe
Building bridges, highways, glamorous cities
And one child – one child only – per family.
This is China of magicNo other word to describe it
Culture and artArchitecture and agriculture
PoetryMeditation and philosophythis infinite culture of the
East
In this China, there is alsoEvil that is powerful than any man
dictating rules, oppressive, hurting, killingThe Tibetans, the opponents of Mao and his
likes
The baby-girls murdered in their cribes because they were not boys…
Putting the old people of Beijing in high-rises
They are sad, they don’t return home all the day long, left off in the streets…
This is China of beauty, ugliness and cruelty -
of beautiful paintings on silkdone with fine, soft, brushes
of evil and goodnesslike the world.
And there are dreams and wishesand promise
you can see it – in people’s eyes
I drove across it, I walked, soaking up, drinking in, its beauty
I loved being there, in a different word, foreign to all I know at home,
This is “my” China,Scenery and cultures, but mainly people
And there, just like here, a picture of mother and daughter breaks my heart…
and there is no escape from the pain.
I brought few crumbs
The rest is waitingfor
Time, time to load it
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