“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” – LP Hartley (The Go-Between)
Shooting in China is to sketch out my childhood memories. Born in 1979, I spent the first five years in Taiwan with paternal grandparents. What I remember of those sights and smell, contemporary China, circa 2008, within 100 days in the summer of 2008, becomes a cartographic experience of ‘real toads in an imaginary garden.’
These sketches are a sort of landscape “ruins in reverse”, a melancholy before the melancholic journey arises, dissipation before the completion of the capitalists’ dream, a preemptive strike upon the memory of the future…In these ambiguous fields shall my studies further dwell.