Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Infatuation with China?


Western artists have always had a fascination with the exotic. China has figured high in that fascination, perhaps starting with Vasco Da Gama's quest to find the Chinese seas, and even Columbius circumnavigating the world, via China. And despite its great distance distance, there was humor in trying to get to China by digging a tunnel.

I think this fascination still holds.

Something triggered my numerous posts on China -