VERY ORDINARY AND Publishing
Photo book
Location: Hong Kong
Date: 2024
Departing from mundaneness, Di scrutinizes her surroundings through image-making, seeking to capture the fleeting yet profoundly poetic visual metaphors.
In Nomad004, Di tries to discover the relationship between the elusiveness of visuality and visual distance. If standing too close would lose the clarity of vision, then the secret to capturing the essence of things might be discovering the right distance.
To Di, her tactic is to maintain the distance physically, mentally, and culturally formed by entities such as windows and fences. The objects of screening between outside and inside, in Di’s metaphorical image storytelling, are revealed as also the bridge and poetically a vantage point to “see” clearer. In her works, the juxtaposition of landscapes and human bodies confuses the distance, begging a question on “intimacy.” Unsolved as an enigma, these questions and reflections on clarity, distance, and intimacy invite the readers to participate in her blend of wistfulness, bemusement, perplexion, and tender acceptance.
Language: English, Chinese 中文
Packaging: Grid fabric
Photo book
Location: Hong Kong
Date: 2024
Departing from mundaneness, Di scrutinizes her surroundings through image-making, seeking to capture the fleeting yet profoundly poetic visual metaphors.
In Nomad004, Di tries to discover the relationship between the elusiveness of visuality and visual distance. If standing too close would lose the clarity of vision, then the secret to capturing the essence of things might be discovering the right distance.
To Di, her tactic is to maintain the distance physically, mentally, and culturally formed by entities such as windows and fences. The objects of screening between outside and inside, in Di’s metaphorical image storytelling, are revealed as also the bridge and poetically a vantage point to “see” clearer. In her works, the juxtaposition of landscapes and human bodies confuses the distance, begging a question on “intimacy.” Unsolved as an enigma, these questions and reflections on clarity, distance, and intimacy invite the readers to participate in her blend of wistfulness, bemusement, perplexion, and tender acceptance.
Language: English, Chinese 中文
Packaging: Grid fabric
no reason studio Publishing
Photo book
Location: Hong Kong
Date: 2022
2021 is a year of working nine-to-five for the author. While working in a commercial gallery, the author has documented the stories unfolded there with her camera. Exquisite, fragile, and expensive artworks; various kinds of visitors; and the faint traces left on the walls after de-installations.
Sometimes, what remains in one’s heart is not the object itself but the vacuum it leaves behind. Yet, in the blink of an eye, the vacuum is occupied by new artworks, soon another. The white cube is a micro-society/city.
Limited edition of 100
Language: English, Chinese 中文
Packaging: Bubble wrapped
ISBN: 978-988-75315-4-8
Photo book
Location: Hong Kong
Date: 2022
2021 is a year of working nine-to-five for the author. While working in a commercial gallery, the author has documented the stories unfolded there with her camera. Exquisite, fragile, and expensive artworks; various kinds of visitors; and the faint traces left on the walls after de-installations.
Sometimes, what remains in one’s heart is not the object itself but the vacuum it leaves behind. Yet, in the blink of an eye, the vacuum is occupied by new artworks, soon another. The white cube is a micro-society/city.
Limited edition of 100
Language: English, Chinese 中文
Packaging: Bubble wrapped
ISBN: 978-988-75315-4-8
no reason studio Publishing
Photo book
Location: Hong Kong
Date: 2021
What was it like to live in mandatory quarantine? It was absolutely silent.
It was like being in a vacuum state inside a glass jar, where everything was so quiet. I was watching everything that was happening outside from a position that was neither too close nor too far away - like watching a scene light years away through the cold glass lens of a telescope.
Limited edition of 200
Language: English, Chinese 中文
Packaging: Vacuum packed 真空包裝
ISBN: 978-988-75315-0-0
Photo book
Location: Hong Kong
Date: 2021
What was it like to live in mandatory quarantine? It was absolutely silent.
It was like being in a vacuum state inside a glass jar, where everything was so quiet. I was watching everything that was happening outside from a position that was neither too close nor too far away - like watching a scene light years away through the cold glass lens of a telescope.
Limited edition of 200
Language: English, Chinese 中文
Packaging: Vacuum packed 真空包裝
ISBN: 978-988-75315-0-0
no reason studio Publishing
Photo book
Location: Hong Kong
Date: first edition 2017; second edition 2020
Photo essay on everyday life.
Language: English
Packaging: Red acetate
ISBN: 978-988-75315-2-4
Photo book
Location: Hong Kong
Date: first edition 2017; second edition 2020
Photo essay on everyday life.
Language: English
Packaging: Red acetate
ISBN: 978-988-75315-2-4
