Growing old or dying is all part of the beauty of an ephemeral creature like man.
I wondered at what point people actually realise that their loved ones are ageing. My moment came in a portrait I took of my family, an extremely unfamiliar portrait, where I couldn't recognise who was in the photo, as if I closed my eyes and imagined what my loved ones looked like, but I couldn't remember. I thought that my relatives should be the most familiar group of people to me, but at this moment I actually know very little about them, and even what I do know exists only as a solidified interpretation of the memory's processing of certain specific occasions.
I tried to explore the traces of time through photography, focusing mainly on the channels of coexistence between me, time and my relatives. I set out to deal with the changes that I was once afraid to look at directly, those that were real and extremely cheap to notice. I am breaking the solidified images of my relatives in my memory, breaking through the film of time, trying to find those blurred figures in my memory, restoring the most real state of my relatives that we have neglected, digging deeper and reconstructing my past experience.
老去或死亡都是人类这种短暂生物的美。
我很好奇人类究竟是在什么时刻意识到亲人正在衰老这件事。我的这一刻出现在一张我拍摄的关于我家人的肖像里，这是一张极为陌生的肖像，我竟认不清照片里的人是谁，就像闭上眼，想象亲人的模样，却怎么也记不起。我原以为亲人应是我最熟悉的群体，但此刻其实我对他们了解甚微，甚至这些已知晓的也仅存在于记忆对某些特定场合的加工后的固化解释。
我尝试利用摄影的方式探寻时间的痕迹，并主要关注我、时间、亲人这三者间共存的通道。我着手处理我曾经恐惧直视的变化，那些真实存在，又极为廉价的注意。亲手打破记忆中亲人们被固化的场景形象，突破时间的薄膜，试图寻找那些记忆中模糊的身影，还原我们都曾忽视的亲人最真实的状态，更深入地挖掘和重构我过去的经验。
“The path was littered with earthworms that had lost their way; they had left the soil and crawled onto the asphalt of the path.
Perhaps due to unfamiliarity with the hardness of the surface, they forgot where they had come from and where they were going.
Stranded on the path, they were crushed by unknowing bicycle wheels and footsteps.”
Perhaps due to unfamiliarity with the hardness of the surface, they forgot where they had come from and where they were going.
Stranded on the path, they were crushed by unknowing bicycle wheels and footsteps.”
Promise
All photographs "make you think of death", while taking photographs participates in the certainty, vulnerability and mutability of another person's death.
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