Candied fruits- a common street vendor dessert in China. These ones are at a stand in Chongqing's "Old City" (aka tourist market). I recall that market being dotted with inexplicable Whack-A-Mole machines between the vendor stands...
I also recall that day seeing an armless man painting intricate watercolors with his mouth, paintings indistinguishable from those by a fully-appendaged artist. His control over the pressure on the brush tip, the speed and flow of his work- it was pretty amazing. And, if I were to be perfectly honest, one of the most effective hard-not-hard sells I saw in the nation of the epically hard sell- boyfriend and I came away with three of his pieces.
mmmmm....makes me drool! That armless painter was quite inspiring -- I am impressed he put all that effort into honing his art instead of wallowing in self-pity or bitterness, which I imagine would be very easy to allow yourself to do.
ReplyDeleteIt was the one-armed man! No, wait, scratch the one, reverse it, and remove the "e"! Get the references?