洄流 Trace Trace
“Trace Trace” is the project that I arranged the works of it recently, though it has been made over ten years.
The Three Gorges, China, my hometown, was the place that I had focused on photographing since 2004. I had kept coming back to there through 6 years, and the observation and experience on the road became the base for “Going Home”. People always say, “the hometown that we cannot come back, the nostalgia for home that cannot be told”. “The place where my families are is home”, now I think the hometown had never changed, it would always be there. We had left there, within the change of our experience, we now know the Three Gorges again from places outside there. I have gradually become determined to try something new for my hometown, not just left this unique place in my memory and imagination.
When I face the Three Gorges, my hometown, the most direct understanding for this place is based on its inevitable destination through the passing time. Since 2009, I started to create Trace Trace. I used my camera to face the the existence of daily life in the broader scenery along the Three Gorges. Through my observation and experience, I froze various situations such as walking, eating, and entertainment, and captured the passive new life within the lingering traces left there after the Three Gorges was transformed to a flat lake.
The word “Trace Trace” comes from the lines of "The spinning flow along the bank is sharp and deep, bearing the drum waves, the fishermen compete fishing for their life” in Xin Tan Guan Bu Yu Ge (New bank view fishing song), Ming dynasty. Extending from the original idea of spinning flow, it now means the eternal circling and staying of the individual spirit in the hometown. Depend on the flow pushing, people shall be realistic to their life in the most clumsy way, from multiple angles through a long time. Based on this concept, I hope to bring the spinning flow infinitely closer to the truth beneath the surface.
“Trace Trace” is the project that I arranged the works of it recently, though it has been made over ten years.
The Three Gorges, China, my hometown, was the place that I had focused on photographing since 2004. I had kept coming back to there through 6 years, and the observation and experience on the road became the base for “Going Home”. People always say, “the hometown that we cannot come back, the nostalgia for home that cannot be told”. “The place where my families are is home”, now I think the hometown had never changed, it would always be there. We had left there, within the change of our experience, we now know the Three Gorges again from places outside there. I have gradually become determined to try something new for my hometown, not just left this unique place in my memory and imagination.
When I face the Three Gorges, my hometown, the most direct understanding for this place is based on its inevitable destination through the passing time. Since 2009, I started to create Trace Trace. I used my camera to face the the existence of daily life in the broader scenery along the Three Gorges. Through my observation and experience, I froze various situations such as walking, eating, and entertainment, and captured the passive new life within the lingering traces left there after the Three Gorges was transformed to a flat lake.
The word “Trace Trace” comes from the lines of "The spinning flow along the bank is sharp and deep, bearing the drum waves, the fishermen compete fishing for their life” in Xin Tan Guan Bu Yu Ge (New bank view fishing song), Ming dynasty. Extending from the original idea of spinning flow, it now means the eternal circling and staying of the individual spirit in the hometown. Depend on the flow pushing, people shall be realistic to their life in the most clumsy way, from multiple angles through a long time. Based on this concept, I hope to bring the spinning flow infinitely closer to the truth beneath the surface.
2009-2013
