Ms. Beijing

June 22, 2012 by Tim Ruane 2 Comments

Ms. Beijing

My daughter, Julia, is in China. Today, she is visiting Shanghai, and she has lived in Beijing since Feb. 14 of this year. I Skyped with her from my home here Garrett Park MD USA four days ago on her 21st birthday. I videotaped her as she appeared on my computer screen as we spoke. The picture above is an image of images of Julia. These images appear on my computer screen each time I go to edit the videotape in an application called Windows Live Movie Maker. The picture here, then, is an image of some images which, in turn, are images of other images. A mirror mirror mirror sort of thing, one might say.

About Tim Ruane

Tim Ruane is an artist and writer. He is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he studied English and art, and has worked as a chief copy editor in the editorial department of The Washington Post, where he has also worked as a freelance photographer. He has written hundreds of poems, two novels a number of short stories. His photographs have been published by The Washington Post, Simon & Schuster and The Good Men Project. He has shown his photographs at Potomac MD Public Library and is scheduled to be published in ShareArt LA, Circumfleks Magazine and Splinter Literary Journal. He will have an exhibition of his photographs in September at the offices of Prudential FedRealty in Washington D.C. Mr. Ruane lives and works in Garrett Park MD, just outside Washington D.C. USA.