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...is about an artist that paints murals and carves sculpture onto the cliffs of the villages along the Yangtze river that will knowingly be covered up. The river will rise from 75 meters to 175 meters over the next five years due to a massive industrialization project know as the Three Gorges Dam project. Countless have died in its construction while countless more have been involuntarily displaced leaving their homes, cultures, and irretrievable memoirs behind. TAG is the story of the artist Lu Kang.



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The forensic anthropologists began bringing out the dead like a wild-wicked space opera one by one the dead and the eaters of the dead unfolded their elaborate, thanic, death train while a hypersonic time quake of excavational research yielded up its living. The apes of god in multiplied violence witnessed on all sides screaming and recording the scene as unseen, vapid, hungry ghosts. The possessed are watching in the distance as Lu Kang, the Chinese counterpart to the Russian Soltzenitzen, sits as a final self-portrait on a make-shift rock throne showing himself to be the king who was no king. Incessantly and in an involuntary fashion carving the demons of his time into the silent rock face one political indictment at a time. These cultural allegations would soon be swallowed up by time and an insatiable blood-hungry river. The Yangtze. His stories alone record an Atlantianic epic that would not be viewed by human souls for another 10,000 years…

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