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My choice of medium is key with this Remix, as the photo of the Forbidden City is an artifact of China’s long dynastic history that Mao sought to obliterate, but in a sense continued with his misuse of power and detrimental mass-action campaigns where millions starved and all others were professionally disenfranchised and repressed. He was not a leader in the true sense, but more a puppet of dynastic power enacted centuries earlier. I was struck by the current attitudes of the older citizens of China where the status quo is to regard Mao as some kind of mid-century savior. However, with the openness that has identified China since the early 90’s there are younger generations who because of the powerful effects of time and change give little sway to his “reign”. If I employed the same remixed image in a live video of the many armed soldiers that march across Tiananmen Square on a regular basis, the effect would be stronger and certainly more suggestive of the soldiers. Just what do they guard? And what is their job description? And why this steady show of marching soldiers