Imagine a child who does not want to eat dumplings, despite being told by his grandfather to do so. Confused, the child picks up the bowl and stares at it for over an hour, not eating but also refusing to put it down.
“That is what has happened one day in Urumqi Love Garden (ULG) [in Xinjiang],” Lyu Xiaoning, the founder of Viva la Vida (VIVA), a global platform for people to share stories through art, told Beijing Review. VIVA owns an online art gallery and social networking platform to exhibit portraits of life by different people.
“When the staff of ULG took the bowl away from
