Chinese Perspaxoflection

Fresh from a 2-month voyage through China via the northeastern United States, I hereby commence a series of post-China perspaxoflections ("post" instead of "in situ" due to time, computer, and internet access constraints across journeyed asphalt, air, rail, and silk roads) built from expounded field notes, photographs, and/or observational commentary.

Ways of ordering space - both dynamic (through time) and static (across time?) - in the Forbidden City:

• Bricks
  
• Fields of color (walls, sky [daylight, smog, weather, etc.], building materials [variously dirtied, worn, cleaned, repaired, etc.], etc.)
  
• Scaffolding
  
• Troop formation/army rank
  
• "Organic" path systems/records marked by ever-deepening ruts worn by herds of foreign feet
  
• Individuals, crowds, uniformed tour groups (ex. herds of matching red hats) and/or herding tour guides' "distinctive" flags, umbrellas, etc. (vs. depopulated spaces and/or restricted areas)
  
• History/narrative/superstition/tradition
  
• Sound (roar of crowds in open spaces muffled by vast expanse; proximal Chinese shouts; guiding guides; various talking voices; enclosed exhibits' recorded soundtracks; etc.)
  
• Fences (Rhythmic pattern of balustrades, posts, apertures, etc.)
• Walls/doors
• Elevations/planes/heights (stairs, podiums, rooftops, distant cityscape, trees, birds)
• Surfaces/textures/patterns
• Etc.