Traveling Series
When we were traveling in Mauritius, I became friends with a family next to my hotel. Before leaving, I promised that they would keep in touch with them by E-mail and send them mosquito pats from China as a gift (as they could not afford one), and I would return to visit them again.After returning home, when I developed the film, I found that the first time I tried to use the flash, I got the shutter and flash connected at the wrong speed, and every photo using the flash only half of the light entered.
During many years, I never returned to
Mauritius and never sent an E-email to
them. Not even the electric mosquito pats.
I learned how to use the camera and flash
properly, as well as how to take perfectly
exposed photos. I no longer use film cameras, so every photo can be displayed on
the LED screen, there are no more irreparable mistakes
Once my hard disk broke down. When I
opened the scanned file again after recovering the data, many files were lost and
many files appeared weird cracks on them.
Memory fades, film fades, and even digitally stored files fade, so does kindness.
Traveling Series II
Sesame and Mung Bean
Meritocracy has always been a passion
narrative. In order to achieve better results,
even gamers take stimulants. Entertainment has become a derivative, with a grotesque effect, grows brutally and chaotical-
ly under the pressure of society. Suffering
and entertainment are ultimately intimate.
The clown’s smile looked strikingly similar to the painful twisted expression of the
sufferer.
In Chinese, “sesame and mung bean” refers
to trivial matters. These snapshots are
spontaneous derivative entertainments of
some Chinese folks. These pervasive and
magical realistic games to some extent
maintain the stability of social structure,
they are not carefree indulgences, nor are
they the opposite of the burden of life.
420 x 297 mm
52 pages
Traveling Series III
Bubble
Travel is very useful and it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our own journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength. It goes from life to death. People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined. It’s a novel, simply a fictitious narrative.
Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
The rotation of hometown and outland is recognition of the sense of belonging. I take this purposeless short-term migration as a common status of my life, putting myself, and my own observations and thoughts into the narrative of travel.I try to create stories with every insignificant experience. These stories are about the difference of landscapes of long-distance regional span and the convergence of phenomena under the trend of globalization, as well as the tininess and incapability of individuals. Travel is connected to myself, to my weakness, dreams and illusions. Travel and its stories are imagined, they are just a fragile bubble.
