OK China

 "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."
<the Go-Between> LP Hartley

Shooting in China is to sketch out the specter of unfixed childhood memories.  The photographic imperative to construe a parallel world emerges from a split living between Taiwan and the U.S., forming alongside the aforementioned a trinity of geography, interlacing with different historical levels of modernization and wilderness. 

Born in 1979, I grew up in Taiwan the first five years of my life before moving to the US.  What I remember of those early sights and smell, contemporary China becomes a landscape of "ruins in reverse," a melancholy before the melancholic journey arises, a preemptive strike upon the memory of the future.

A dystopic drawing board of sorts, or rather a collection of a drift: traversing through the margins marked between bus stops, between the leveling of grounds and escalators built, between signs of empty rhetoric and empty corridors of unfinished palace malls, to catch the next train into the next­­ unknown future that neon karaoke lights disguise as intoxication...