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2023

Northwards view along the Chuanshang Bridge over the Chuanyang River, as it joins the Huangpu River on the left.Chuanshang BridgeThe Xuhui skyline, as seen across the Huangpu River from the Qiantan Youcheng Park in Sanlin town, just north of the Little Huangpu River (canal).Puxi, from SanlinzhenFishingFishingA person fishes on the shore of the Chuanyang River. Behind is the Yaolonglu Bridge from Sanlinzhen to Zhoudiadu.FishingUpUpA grandfather carries his grandson's bike up the steps to the Chuanshang pedestrian bridge. The Chuanshang Footbridge bridge continues the trail from the Qiantan Youcheng Park northwards towards the Houtan Park. China has a mandatory retirement age of 60 for men and 55 for white-collar women, and demographics of four people over fifty for every child younger than ten. Grandparents with grandchildren in the parks and urban spaces are a common sight here.UpThe White TreeThe White TreeBlue BoatBlue Boat“Immersed Dreams”“Immersed Dreams”This thick steel plate — one of several on the site — is embedded in glass on the Reed Platform, which extends into the Huangpu River from the edge of the Shanghai World Expo Houtan Wetland Park. The park was originally the site of the Iron and Steel Factory (Pudong Iron & Steel Group) and the Houtan Ship Repair Factory. The rough-surfaced steel plates have the appearance of ship hull material. Although stylized as “Reed’s Platform" on nearby English-language signage, the name of the platform is 芦荻台 "reedgrass platform", and it incorporates fields of reeds into its design.Reed Platform“What objects have an emotional effect on us and why? What makes our connection with some objects emotional? “The project reconstituted an archaeological site. These excavated obiects are symbols composing a history of production in and around the city of Shanghai. The relics, once buried in our city's past, presents many generations of progress of the people of Shanghai and their creation of better city life. They are the source of feeling our deep emotional connections with past and future.”“Immersed Dreams”, by Yang YanThe lake is in the Shanghai Expo Park. It runs alongside, but does not contact, the Huangpu River. The arch in the distance is the Lupu Bridge. Once the longest arched bridge in the world, it is now third, behind the Ping’nan Third Bridge in Guangxi and the Chaotianmen Bridge in Chongqing. The six-lane bridge is named for the Luwan and Pudong districts that it connected when it was built. (Luwan is now part of Haungpu.) Like most large structures in Shanghai, LED lights animate it at night. The Expo Park was built for the 2010 Shanghai Expo (aka World Fair), and, controversially, involved the clearance of 2.6 ㎢ of riverfront. 73 million people attended the expo; US$48 billion was spent in preparation.Blue BoatNYUSH HengeNYUSH HengeNYU Shanghai Qiantan campus, three weeks before the first day of classes.NYUSH Henge

2022

Aren’t You Just a Ray of SunshineAren’t You Just a Ray of SunshineKAWS companion in front of a photo shop (slogan: "A beam of store sunlight") in Yangjing, Shanghai. Life-size sculptures and other iconography of the Companion are ubiquitous here; there is a mural on the same block, and a standing Companion sculpture in an alley a block away.Well aren't you just a ray of sunshineThe Bund, at dawn. The colors have not been edited.Dragon spinning on the BundPhotograph 1 from Skyline and DomeSkyline and Dome — 1Photograph 2 from Skyline and DomeSkyline and Dome — 2Photograph 3 from Skyline and DomeSkyline and Dome — 3Gao YangGao YangThis structure at Gao Yang, designed by Will Alsop for the Shanghai Port International Cruise Terminal, features a hanging four-story restaurant and two bars suspended in brightly-colored pods. As seen from the waterfront.Gao YangThe Lujiazui skyline, viewed from the North Bund in Hongkou across the Huangpu River. “The Hongkou riverside section will become the best place to take a postcard photo of the Bund”, the district construction management committee said in 2017.Lujiazui skyline, under a pedestrian bridgeThe Lujiazui skyline, viewed from the North Bund in Hongkou across the Huangpu River. “The Hongkou riverside section will become the best place to take a postcard photo of the Bund”, the district construction management committee said in 2017.Lujiazui skyline, under a pedestrian bridgeThe Lujiazui skyline, viewed from the North Bund in Hongkou across the Huangpu River. “The Hongkou riverside section will become the best place to take a postcard photo of the Bund”, the district construction management committee said in 2017.Lujiazui across the bubbleIt was only 6:30 PM when the picture was taken, but Shanghai is in the eastern side of a single unified time zone wide enough that it could have been five. Sunset that day was at 4:52 PM, local time; last light was at 6:18 PM. The color differences between the building lights and their reflections are present in the RAW file. I’m planning to go back to see if the water color changed the actual reflection, or whether it’s an artifact from the iPhone.Douxian Park, early eveningRoad TripRoad TripRoad TripRoad TripPhotograph 1 from Rooftop SunsetRooftop Sunset — 1Photograph 2 from Rooftop SunsetRooftop Sunset — 2Photograph 3 from Rooftop SunsetRooftop Sunset — 3Photograph 4 from Rooftop SunsetRooftop Sunset — 4Photograph 1 from Tai Koo LiTai Koo Li — 1Photograph 2 from Tai Koo LiTai Koo Li — 2Photograph 3 from Tai Koo LiTai Koo Li — 3“Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.” — Euripides A westward view from a pedestrian bridge at Tai Koo Li Qiantan.“Mighty is geometry”