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I went traveling in China during the summer of 2006. I wasn't touring as I was going from friend to friend or their relatives and acquaintances avoiding touristy places trying to experience China instead of tour buses. I instead used trains, domestic airlines and buses.
The photographs I took were originally in color and the travelogue texts in the piece are actually from my observation or interpretation of what could be from generic travel books. I kept and collected almost everything and anything so I would have clues to my experiences. Several months later while reviewing my photos I saw some rural farmhouses with scrolls over their mantelpieces (a place of honor in the home with ashes of ancestors or house gods) that depicted values or places of pilgrimage that they wished to go to once in their lifetime. In the cities the billboards and buildings with windows that had video advertisements were the graphic art selling everything and anything (taxicabs advertised breast enhancement surgery or facial reconstruction around the eyes for females).
The scroll format adapted to one of my favorite artists, Joseph Cornell, gave me the idea of presenting my scrolls in shadowboxes as re-collections of the China I experienced. Being that the Re-collections are things that I collected in China they are one-of-a-kind collections / assemblages and are priced in an escalating range as pieces sell. Originally there were 44 pieces so as availability decreases the price increases as the pieces are not reproducible.
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