Back to Origin, 2022.

Silver gelatin print on rock，river water

70 × 30 cm

It began with the rock I picked up around the broken bridge by the riverside. Perhaps it is a common rock but is an evident object of the thing I have experienced there in my memory, so I took a picture of the bridge and brought back this Falling debris. For me, photos preserve a panoramic view of visual memory, while the existence of the rock as a tactile memory. They can not leave each other. The complete memory composed of visual and tactile elements evokes my intention to expose the photograph on the rock. For the rock, it became a carrier of the image which describes its identity, which creates a direct physical connection between the place and the rock itself. The whole work represents the process of tracing the origin that also illustrates its indexicality in several dimensions. For viewers, the object carrier participates in the narratives of the image either, which demonstrates it is not only a piece of image but the thing that exists in the space with the function of being affected by surroundings.