oh my pics have loaded out of order (... kate- help!).. anyway these gas pipes are at the 798 art area in beijing. people who know feel it has become a very commercialised area and say the artists have moved on...

a door at the Imperial Palace... lots of doorknobs!!!

yes you are right.. that is a chinese thingy cover and \i am in beijing.. my first time in china despite living in asia almost ten years!

the imperial palace.. at least there were images of flowers but it didnt make up for the lack of gardens throughout, for me anyways... there was a chinese garden at the end which was intereresting...

my fav piece of art in the 798 area was this.. I think becasue it reminds me so much of the man in the \nigel brown/ paintings