Like the gradual unrolling of a Chinese scroll, fragments and individual scenes from different points of view flow seamlessly into each other. China is a country of vast contrasts and contradictions, at once Communist and Capitalist, modern and ancient.
People speak many different dialects but share one common written language.
Chinese characters themselves are often a combination of separate images and ideas. As a photographer, I saw images in layers, one thing partially revealed and obscured by something else in an ongoing parade. Gradually I began to recognize a few characters. Marguerite Welch lives on the Severn River in Annapolis, Marlyand, with her husband. She has been a wife, a mother, a teacher, a student, a photographer, a writer, a sailor, a gardener, and a visual artist for 30 years.