Jocko Weyland - Geomancy
The photographs in Geomancy were taken from October 2007 to November 2008, using an Olympus Stylus with color film. I had left New York for Beijing, where I lived on Xindong Lu, sometimes tutored English, and occasionally wrote a column called âRaw Chinaâ for Vice. The city embodied an almost too good to be true clichĂ©d âothernessâ with an overabundance of literally foreign colors, textures, shapes, and structures. Put another way, China, and Beijing in particular, is extremely photogenic. The title comes from a reference to the Forbidden City in the accompanying story âThe First Bus of Beijingâ about riding the No. 1 bus. It couldnât be more appropriate, as Geomancy is a concept taken very seriously in China that means âthe art of placing or arranging buildings or other sites auspiciously.â Whether that goal is attained or not is a matter open to interpretation. This selection is one personâs photographic odyssey into the sites, roads, byways and alleys, the in-between spaces, the objects and flora, their positioning and relationships to each other, that made greater Beijing a fascinating, bewildering, and close to overwhelming place.
- Jocko Weyland
Published by Dashwood Books (New York City).
96 pages, 12 x 18 cm, softcover, Dashwood Books (New York City).Â
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The photographs in Geomancy were taken from October 2007 to November 2008, using an Olympus Stylus with color film. I had left New York for Beijing, where I lived on Xindong Lu, sometimes tutored English, and occasionally wrote a column called âRaw Chinaâ for Vice. The city embodied an almost too good to be true clichĂ©d âothernessâ with an overabundance of literally foreign colors, textures, shapes, and structures. Put another way, China, and Beijing in particular, is extremely photogenic. The title comes from a reference to the Forbidden City in the accompanying story âThe First Bus of Beijingâ about riding the No. 1 bus. It couldnât be more appropriate, as Geomancy is a concept taken very seriously in China that means âthe art of placing or arranging buildings or other sites auspiciously.â Whether that goal is attained or not is a matter open to interpretation. This selection is one personâs photographic odyssey into the sites, roads, byways and alleys, the in-between spaces, the objects and flora, their positioning and relationships to each other, that made greater Beijing a fascinating, bewildering, and close to overwhelming place.
- Jocko Weyland
Published by Dashwood Books (New York City).
96 pages, 12 x 18 cm, softcover, Dashwood Books (New York City).Â
