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Like a person can¡¯t jump into a same river twice, I can¡¯t see the same scenery while looking into the window in my house. Everything in this city is temporary: streets, buildings, shopping centers, train station, airport, transit ways, trees, road marks and etc; even the crowds. No matter permanent or temporary residents, nothing is fixed. Everything changes easily just like altering a telephone number.

I try to use my photography to fix these moving objects, and then put these fixed images back to the moving backgrounds. These moments (things) either meet or by-pass each other in this world, it doesn¡¯t really matter. I would like to replay this chaotic logic, these uncontrollable rules and its confusing magic. Just because I still have a bit of passion to this world and would like to share this passion with every single object of the world, I have to record what I have seen. As a witness myself, I would like to keep the memory of my life inside my built-up small-scale country, or to build a scenery monument for this ever changing city.

Since seeing scenery at a window is a kind of tourism, my works can also be called an opposite kind (a city travelling in people, or people travelling in a city) when they are put into an exhibition space in a foreign country. Since we build a city according to some existing rules; we feel the same strangeness of our own city as foreign ones; we want to be modern; we want to join the WTO and we want everything that this world can offer, I would like my works of street images in China to be associated with Bangkok, Tokyo, Berlin, Paris, New York and other big cities alike. If so, I can provide a better dream for such a globalization.

Let¡¯s fulfill this dream advanced in my small scale country!