Week 8 Weekly Photo: Controversy

I took this image when I was living in china. This image of a terra-cotta soldier holding hands with a small girl was strangely disturbing. At the end of the tour, in a sort of regrouping area, there is a giant warrior marionette puppet holding the hand of a girl puppet. The warrior is giving the little girl serious side eye. For those who never heard of the terracotta soldiers before. Over the past 35 years, archaeologists have located some 600 pits, a complex of underground vaults as yet largely excavated across a 22-square-mile area. Some are hard to get to, but three major pits are easily accessible, enclosed inside the four-acre Museum of the Terracotta Army, constructed around the discovery site and opened in 1979. In one pit, long columns of warriors, reassembled from broken pieces, stand in formation.With their topknots or caps, their tunics or armored vests, their goatees or close-cropped beards, the soldiers exhibit an astonishing individuality. A second pit inside the museum demonstrates how they appeared when they were found: some stand upright, buried to their shoulders in soil, while others lie toppled on their backs, alongside fallen and cracked clay horses. The site ranks with the Great Wall and Beijing's Forbidden City as one of the premier tourist attractions within China. This image i felt as if the statue of the soldier was looking down left at the little girl but secretly looking not a full head turn but only the eyes. This wouldn't be an issue if the soldier looked to the left with his head turned but the fact that only his eyes are looking at the girl kind makes it creepy. The girls eyes are hollowed out and nothing but blackness is seen in her eyes. Either this was intentional or this was a just something that the creator missed.