In winter’s mist, leaves drift like fragments of forgotten whispers, touching the earth in silence. It is a fleeting sign that winter has brushed the city’s edge, like a breath held before release.
Winter doesn't arrive silently. The sharp, cold air carries a faint scent of fire, each breath a reminder of warmth lost and the year's quiet ending. Shadows of unseen birds lift their voices, filling gaps left by the season’s retreat, their eyes fixed on a half-seen forest blurred by distance and fog.
Do you hear it? The quiet magic I once overlooked now vibrates in the season’s stillness—forms scattered and dazzling as they converge and retreat. The distant forest stirs like a living, shifting chorus of leaves and branches, pulsing and swaying. It beckons, calling souls like mine to move, to step beyond the ordinary and into the flow, where stillness is merely a pause before the next breath, the next step forward.
Petrichor is a photographic project that examines the exploration of my own existence. An untamed horse, the dome of a mottled palace, the silent sea, and a pathway that leads me toward nowhere. All of these visions have constantly revisited me. By recording these scenes which keep appearing in my memories, I am chasing the answer about what the most important thing is in the continuous change of time.
This project comes from my long-term uncertainty about growth and time. I wandered without answers to the question “what am I” for a long time, and I was getting older before I knew it. In this hesitation, I understand that the tension between adulthood and youth stems from self-existence, and my confusion about being a living being in the passage of time can not be replied by time itself but will be answered by staring down the idea of “myself”.
Light is the source that directly shapes photography, and recording light has become the core topic of the project. In One Day Solar, the dazzling light in the day breaks through the sky, while the night is silent and slowly affects the exposure. Lucien recorded this continuous but endless power through the long exposure brought by the pinhole camera.
Serenity is a photographic project that records my personal discomfort with my own existence. By putting myself in the same situation that made me uncomfortable, I was able to purposefully experience the emotional changes that the discomfort brought to me. I capture those fleeting changes and present my finally relieved state in static and unclear images.
I consider this project an experiment on myself, a series of reactionary gestures resulting from deliberate actions. I believe that life is composed as a continuous moment instead of fragmentary events, even though each photo I captured is a unique frozen moment. That is why I tried to recall these continuous moments which made me feel uneasy. Through revisiting of these uneasiness, I create an opportunity to seek a more peaceful self.