Like the falling autumn petals and catkins in broken dreams, the floating negative grains are far from our normal understanding about perfect photography. We even find it hard to strictly define it as photography since Zhang Weixing doesn't use the camera to catch images. He just experimentally puts children's clothes onto a sheet of 5060 cm photo paper, exposes a shadow image in the darkroom and through complex procedures of controlling the developer and fixer, creates a kind of full-size image between photocopy, phantom, photograph and X-ray. This process is subject to some photographic limitations such as size, exposure time, the number of times the paper is exposured, ingredients of the emulsions, tiredness of the emulsions, orders of applying the emulsions. Besides, the fabric materials, fiber density, pattern, longitude-latitude manufacture, chance and the inability to create duplicates also affect the imaging process.

- Extracted from Chen Haiyan "Children's Clothes"
(Translation: Fan Chen)