Before We Explain the World

Photography by Lu Heng

2Where We Look From

Looking Up

Story 10 of 51 · 7 photographs

Look upwards from a column, through steel frames, stairs and cables, until only a building edge and a patch of sky remain. A space made for walking through becomes a drawing overhead.

  1. A pale round column meets a dark gridded ceiling, with bright sky beyond, in black and white.
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    Column, ceiling and sky

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  1. In black and white, beams and pipes converge from the frame edges towards a bright opening overhead.
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    Looking up through the structure

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  1. Looking up through a circular structure, dark rings and rails surround an opening to blue sky with a warm-toned inner rim.
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    A circle of sky

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  2. White supports and spokes of an observation wheel cross against a pale blue sky.
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    Wheel and sky

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  1. A white hub, supports and fine spokes of an observation wheel cross a blue sky.
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    Along the spokes

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  2. A slender observation tower with a disc-shaped top rises beside leaves against blue sky.
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    A tower through the leaves

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  1. The dark edge of a wall occupies the right of the frame beside a pale, lightly clouded sky.
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    Sky beside a wall

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