... but I lied 词不达意 is a series of film photography in combination with individual titles of each of the 7 following images as the final presentation for my undergraduate thesis exhibition in May 2016, at Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. The series distilled from a year of scratching, searching and settling of art making fully upon my emotional ups and downs situating myself with my father's death in May 2015.
Satisfaction 满足
Seclusion 隔绝
Obsession 沉迷
Compulsion 强迫
Affectation 假装
Conventionalism 墨守成规
Distance 远方
I make art as a way to read the world. I attempt to illustrate feelings with a camera which is probably one of the most direct materials of recording to use in human history. Along with the immediate reaction to my surroundings, the characteristics of color film photography have created a process of striving, laboring and waiting due to the time that this material requires. All the work shot by Nikon FG-20 with 35mm Fuji color films.