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Photo Description Captions <br /> Translations Courtesy Manchen Hao <br /> All Photographic collages in the art samples are currently 30"x 40" with the exception of the <br /> silk installation of nine 9' silk organza panels and the 17' canvas of Urban Spectacle. <br /> Photographic Collages are printed on 100% cotton rag paper with archival ink. New work may <br /> include a set of 7'-9' panels with fabric and paper collage overlay as in example#1, Urban <br /> Apparition with additional collage to provide for a series of longer vertical scroll. <br /> 1- Urban Apparition. Image 1 includes 2 images, the first being a mock up design from paper <br /> collage artist Sandy Milroy who will be collaborating with Tyroler on a series of 7-9' banners to <br /> be displayed in Unitarian Church and Greenhill galleries in 2004. The adjoining image is <br /> entitled Urban Apparition, a composite from a shot taken of a street vendor from a minority <br /> ethnic group in China who is selling at the market place for tourists. Additional layered images <br /> collaged into the final photograph include neighborhoods near Tiananmen Square,a Chinese <br /> flag, and texture from the neighborhood wall near Cang Nan HuTong. <br /> 2- Urban Spectacle <br /> Boy at Electronics Market on Dongzhimen Neidajie (inner road). Produced for 17' banner <br /> currently in Armfield Atrium of the UNC Gillings School of Public Health and commissioned <br /> by Carolina Asia Society for entry panel. <br /> 3- Night Travelers, Certain Whispers, Diptych, Drawing Collage with Samm Sacks for <br /> Beijing Impression,s Extension. Night Travelers bicycle girls getting off work on the street <br /> outside Sack's apartment, Douban Hutong. Certain Whispers collage from original drawing by <br /> Sacks of women at a market in Kashgar became centerpiece for silk installation. <br /> 4- Peg Gignoux nine panel silk organza installation <br /> Impressions and Inspirations from the translation: in the sun setting city luo RI zhi cheng <br /> Through our own impressionistic photographic and Transcription,Beijing Impressions Sacks <br /> and Tyroler originally reinterpret Bai's primary topics of intimacy, Tonging, and transition, in <br /> the historical context of contemporary Beijing, in an era of cultural, social, and industrial <br /> transformation from 2004-2012. In the 2013 exhibition at the GEC Center, UNC Chinese <br /> student Manchen Hao reflects upon the imagery and her own longing for and memories of her <br /> home in 2013 in English and Mandarin. This may be included in 2014 exhibitions. See below: <br /> 5-Woman of Gifts <br /> The Woman of Gifts is one of the small neighborhood shop owners who sell items such as thin <br /> pieces of wrapping paper for gift giving on birthdays. Near the Drum and Bell Tower. <br /> Manchen: <br /> This photograph reminds me of a story my American friend Christiana told me about a gift she <br /> received from the owner of a Chinese restaurant in a small town in North Carolina. <br /> She took her Chinese friend, Owen for a meal. The owner was so excited to meet them because <br /> there were only a few native Chinese living there. So he gave us a gift of free food. It is <br /> interesting to visit Chinese restaurants in North Carolina and see my Chinese friends there. MY <br />