A painting of me

Standard Room. ⇒

   19 March 2009, early morning

"In every hotel in China the regular accommodation for guests is known as the 'Standard Room'. Found on every floor is a maid, a 'Fu Wu Yuan', they attend to the guests and the up keep of the rooms. These women usually come from the countryside. Their pay, although better than where they came from is still too little to live in big cities. Thus their lives often only exist within the small confines of the hotel they work in and its immediate surroundings. With little opportunity to enjoy the pleasures of the city they live in they are individuals whose function within society is purely utilitarian. Standard Room is a series of portraits of these women who work in these hotels." This link was found via Conscientious.

This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.

Perma-Link  

Comments

Don't be shy, you can comment too!

 
Some things to keep in mind: You can style comments using Textile. In particular, *text* will get turned into text and _text_ will get turned into text. You can post a link using the command "linktext":link, so something like "google":http://www.google.com will get turned in to google. I may erase off-topic comments, or edit poorly formatted comments; I do this very rarely.