Are you the Artist?

I was in Shanghai last October and while I was there I had the opportunity to visit the art district that is called "50 Moganshang Road Art Center."  This is an area that Shanghai has set aside to enable contemporary artists to set up studios and art galleries.  While there I photographed some of the walls that appeared throughout the area.  China is famous for their walls.  I have reworked a few of these photos into digital art presentations.  I hope to do a series of large paintings from these graphics.

These photos remind me of a poem that I wrote the first time I visited China

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Are you the Artist

Are you the artist?
She asked of me.
An artist who paints pictures for all to see?

An artist who can show the dark of night and the light of day,
who can draw the birds in flight and the human way.
Who can paint the strength of stone, the softness of silk,
The crystal clear of water, and the white of milk?

Are you the artist?
She asked of me.
An artist who paints pictures for all to see.

An artist who can paint the shades of grey, the insipid clay,
who can draw the mountains high and children at play,
Who can show ribbons of roads and old villages so
Who can portray wise old men and fields of rice,
Babes in the arms of women, their smiles filled with life.

Are you the artist?
She asked of me.
An artist who paints pictures for all to see.

An artist who can see the life in my eyes,
who can see all the blues in the sky?
Who can draw the line so straight and fine,
who can show the heat of red and the cool of blue,
Who can paint the love, I feel for you?

Are you my artist she asked of me?