Who is the next?

After being sick of dozens of reality shows, for instance, Project Runway, Top Chef and Big Brother, people have an exciting alternative choice now-- Work of Art. Now it is artists’ turn to compete with each other each week and play “One of you will be the winner , and one of you is leaving us tonight” game. How fine art can be related to commercial and entertaining industry? As an audience, I feel sort of embarrassed every time I see those artists being judged by critial judges. But I need not think that way since a painting is being showed in the gallery; art has already been connected with business. Would Picasso, Chagall and Magritte join the competition if they lived in twenty first century? Who would win? It is a wonderful show after all. People can see much creativity and imagination, realize the process of creating and know the artist’s perspective of creation. All the authors should be alert now. They might unsurprisingly be the next target to entertain the audiences. In that sense, they might be chosen to join the reality show to compete for $100,000 I believe it doesn't take too long to see "the next great writer" in America.

Swamps

Full of excitement, you walk the crooked path in the forest to see swamps.

To your surprise, you come across a green snake.

It slides away as though you were not even here.

What astonishes you more is the delusion.

Sunlight drifts on the water, shining brightly.

“It is an ocean!” you think.

You don’t feel damp or smell any strange, undistinguished gas at all.

Dead lily pads leave traces for you everywhere.

Fish submerges in deep water.

The sun carries declined, broken branches of withered trees in this huge, endless ocean.

The sun had grown old here.

Sunlight lay across the street like an old yellow dog, barring the way. The sun had grown old here.  ----Eileen Chang

When I arrived here few days ago, the sentences came into my mind. Compared to the climate in my country, it is hotter and drier in the summertime. The sun spreads everywhere. You have nowhere to go, nowhere to hide. It was my first impression.

Although I came to west side of America twice, it is my first time to the south. "Southernism" is a new territory I want to explore. It is just more than a new vocabulary I learned on my first day.