插畫純藝
The photographs I take are captured in the space of a room, using images to "create" a mysterious character, combining the virtual and the real and the imaginary. In a quiet space, look for traces of the life of a "person" that "I" imagined, which could be anyone or even not a person, could be a gust of wind, a smell or a raindrop.
This project is about a 'silent' experiment. Without wearing a hearing aid, I searched for the real sound I understand, and thought about how to express thel sound I perceive with images. Inspiration comes from the part of myself about sound and perception. I am born deaf, and the cochlear implant gave me the opportunity to hear the outside world, but I will never be able to perceive the true shape of the sound. I don't khow the difference between the sound I hearl and the original sound of this world. Loud or muffled, softer or sharper, encased or dissected. I look for sound through the outside world. In the silent world, branches, veins, and water surface, the sense of silence they give me is deafening.
The tearful moments of adolescence.The moment of crying is like a light rain or a heavy fog in my world. Tears slowly sutured my wounds, and every tear was a stubborn process of breaking and reshaping myself.
This work landscapes blending reality, memories, and fantasies, imagining my death at seventeen. Chinese people often connect death with returning to one's hometown. My journey started in a village for kindergarten, moved through town for school, then to Shanghai for high school, and now I'm headed abroad for university. Despite this journey, when I die, I'll return to that village, settling as dust in many places but finally resting in my hometown's soil.