These portraits portray my attitude to them.

Attitude determines method of watching, just like the mood of people around you which you can choose to ignore or compassionate. These portraits convey to me such strong feelings that I can easily sense their breath. They have their separate domains and world, and have formed a unique field that I can ignore their existence. Their ritual poise is above mark aesthetics.

Though in ordinary senses they are lifeless or mindless, I still believe in Hegel’s “what exists is reasonable”. What’s reasonable must have a soul, like the existence of human being. Thus, shooting portraits for them became a dialogue between souls. Through these portraits, I also completed a communication with my own soul.

Now the portraits’ digestion and translation of their model brings the form of the art production up side down. Photography reconstructs our mode of viewing the world. When Plato’s cave is changed by the all-consuming eye of photography, people would regain the right to control when facing the insecurity of space and time. After the dissolution and restructuring of a certain fixed knowledge, what I obtain is a new dimension extended from observing or gazing. And these portraits are not an accidental presentation.