The Sweetest Thing 20.04.04

The Sweetest Thing20.04.04
浮动的甜美20.04.04

These photographs were created while traveling by train, documenting memories along the way, the motion of the moving train causing the camera’s blurriness and distorsion. Moving from country to country, a changing landscape has become a part of life. While photography is essentially a two-dimensional medium, it can be used as a tool that is able to capture the symbolic meaning of reality as something separate from reality itself. While these motion-blurred images signify the beginning of a journey, these works take viewers in two different directions: one is the inward landscape of the artist’s self, the other the external abstractions of scenes viewed from the train. The viewers can see the subtle transitions between time, space and different perspectives in the photographs, and it provides us with a brand-new interpretation of our living memories. We can vaguely see the hidden horizon lines and skyscrapers, the buildings, the trees and the architecture through these floating objects in the photographs. The constant switching and exchanging of energies leads viewers into a private land of dreamlike beauty, at the same time sharing the artist’s broken memories floating in the sky.

“As for choosing the title The Sweetest Thing, there is one photograph in particular that is a good example. The photograph is of a giant oil tower in an industrial park. It’s a strong steel architectural symbol made by humans, but after being changed in my photographs, some people say its appearance is like a crown... I think it looks more like a cake.”

这是一组坐火车路上拍摄的照片, 记录沿途的记忆, 火车快速的奔腾, 相机的捕捉也显得模糊且失真, 更推向一种虚实交接的感受但又几许浪漫与黑色

一直从事研究立体物体拆解为平面后，专研形式上所具有的美感。作为本身即为平面的摄影，我则把它处理得更加符号化。我长时间在不同的国家生活与工作，生活的状态对于异地的陌生与过客的不确定感，使流动成为记忆中最主要的特点。

而取名叫«浮动的甜美20.04.04»可以以其中的一张照片来作例子，这张照片所拍摄到的是一个工业区的巨型蓄油塔，他是一种很强烈且刚硬的人类发展建筑之一，然而在经过转换之后，有的人形容像是个皇冠，我则说是像个蛋糕。

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