After nine months of traveling around China, Spanish born, Shanghai-based photographer Álvaro Escobar Ruano came up with Censured, a visual metaphor for China’s strict and prohibitive nature. The covered cars sit quietly—they very much exist in reality, but seem to be stifled. For Ruano, the series explores a country whose government controls every step its people take and where information is often censored; the truths that remain to be told are concealed within the shrouded cars.
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or, could it be that Cars are a status symbol in China, like many other countries, and the OWNERS do not want sun fading and “yellow dust” acid rain damage to their prized possession, so they covered the cars themselves…
I cover my motorcycle when i park it outside so that the seat doesn’t singe my butt when the temps get above 120F
I feel the car owners are the govt and the cars are the people. The dust is democracy and the govt doesn’t want the dust of democracy to get on the people cause then the govt would have to take the people to a detailer to get all the “dustocracy” washed off.
As stupid as this sounds it’s 20 IQ points above the synopsis.