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Buddha’s Footprints Zhang Wang

As early as 1999, Zhang Wang began his photographic creation in Chinese Buddhist culture. In secluded Buddhist temples, Zhang Wang spent long time with the monks, sharing his life with them. He often got up in wee hours in the day to shoot the monastic life, or risked precarious mountains to capture Buddhist relics. He would also stay up late to peruse Buddhist texts. The fifteen years of persistent photographic creation has put him through untold hardships and difficulties but also earned him close to a hundred important honors from China and rest of the world. In May 2013, Zhang Wang’s “Buddha’s Footprints” solo exhibition was selected to be part of UNESCO’s “World Culture Convention” exhibition.

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About David

I never got to write at length about David Bowie being gone. It was just too painful to think about, but I think I need to.

David Bowie has changed, enriched, and influenced my life so much. I first saw him when I was about 11 or 12 when flipping through tv. It was a clip of him performing Space Oddity on an old tv show called the Midnight Special. I remember something inside me just changing seismically. For one I had never seen a real person look like that. He had this green and red jumpsuit on with flaming red hair, no eyebrows, makeup, and the weirdest eyes I had ever seen. Living in sort of a shit town where everyone dressed and acted the same, it was like seeing someone throw a brick through everything I ever knew. He was the absolute coolest man I had ever seen.

And that music. That song.

It was appropriate that the song was as out of this world as its creator and singer. I couldn’t help but feel like I had seen the future, even though it was nearly 40 years old at that point.

About a year later I got his Ziggy Stardust album and since then his music has been sort of a call to arms for me. It was a rallying cry against the normal, a brick through the window of my oppressive surroundings. It soundtracked nearly every important moment of my teenage life. I had virtually no one back then but this strange alien man and his music. I was a nobody and an outcast and David Bowie’s music made being a freak and a weirdo seem like the coolest thing in the world to be, and he did that for millions of other people out there too. And when I finally found people who understood and accepted me, his music was still there, still helping me.

And he was so humble, so genuine. Most people that cool and interesting made you feel less so in comparison, but his demeanor made it feel like you were up there with him against the world. He was my hero, my icon, my inspiration. The world is darker without him, but infinitely brighter because of him. Thank you David Bowie. Thank you thank you fucking thank you. I wouldn’t be who I am today without your help.

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