Beijing September 2011

TRAVEL | Visited Beijing to establish contacts. The goal is to create a book related to a possible paper clip exhibition in 2014. New culture, good food, interesting meetings, exhibitions and wonderful people. Met Tone Helene Aarvik, First Secretary, Press and Culture at the Royal Norwegian Embassy, and Xiaoguang Qiao who is a well-known Chinese paper cutting artist and a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Both meetings were very successful and will hopefully be an important contribution to the continuing process of a book and an exhibition China in 2014.

And of course The Great Wall, The Forbidden City, Hutongs, opera, many cars, heat and a lot of pollution. And not to mention: inspiration!