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Diary Weina
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I always hear myself saying: ‘Is it beautiful?’ Looking at the things and people around me, I can easily find myself anchoring emotions of love to the way a person butters bread in a moment or turning against them because of their taste in clothes. And again find other beauties when I know them better. So it is difficult to say a person is beautiful or not, just say every person has beauty at some point in his or her lifetime. That’s why I like these sentences when I read the book of Andy Warhol (one of my favorite artists) again. It is beautiful.
 

Young people are beautiful because they look really in style. Later the times changing and the tastes changing, then they will be a beauty in other styles.
One night, with my old teacher I had a dinner in the restaurant. After many years, it was difficult to get a point to start talking. There were so many things changing. Her face was already full of wrinkles, wearing big eyeglasses, white color hair, a little bit humpback. I would not easily recognize her if we just met in the street. In my memory, she should still be a beautiful and serious woman. But now I just could not say she was beautiful when we met again after more than ten years. We started talking about different experiences. She often laughed with a lot of wisdom stories. I listened to her carefully and I slowly felt she was so beautiful. It was not because of her looking but her thinking.
 
Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it’s different in some way from the other things around it.
One of my friends, she never has nice clothes and good makeup when she was young, she was a so simple and honest person. I got a shock when I went to her home for the first time. Her mother was a disabled person and her father was a normal worker. The house was so small and uncomfortable. Except for two beds and a desk, there wasn’t much furniture. But she never thought there were some problems in her family. She liked friends to come to her home and helped people with their problems. All people said she was so beautiful.
Good clothes and makeup do not make a person beautiful, but they just make a person feel more beautiful. So we can always make a person less beautiful.
 
Beauty really has to do with the way a person carries it off. When people see “beauty” it has to do with the place, with what they’re wearing, what they’re thinking and what they are doing.
Traveling to different countries, we may see so many things are different, and also there are different kinds of beauty in it. Every time when I read that a person wrote about their feelings of hearing other people just earn € 200 at each month and can work very hard. Taxi drivers need to give their boss € 20 a day, but the passengers just need to pay € 1.80 a time. I can only think these people just have one normal and simple experience. Nothing valuable to compare with different money. Workers are beautiful. There are different qualities of beauty in all the counties.
I often like standing on one side of street and just see that people pass by when I go to a new place. Seeing different people in a totally different way for living, they are beautiful. They have totally different mind. So it is always good to keep an open mind in different situations.
 
 
 
 
I’m not always interested in seeing the photography about people’s emotion. I feel they are never real. I like being there and talk with people, to learn the experiences in their lives and feel them too.
 
Everything is beautiful at some point, and everything can become an image, and if you can use different ways to discover them it is more beautiful.
 
 
 

Weina is an artist from Inner Mongolia in China and a resident at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam.
 
 
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