Fresh / 2002

Creamy Role / digital photography

Statement
We brush past history and tradition. We shake hands with them, we nod at them.
It seems we can only be parochial and only sense the nonce. Our lostness manifests itself in handling the relationship between life and ourselves as an amusement. Thus, fun replaces our lostness and our being duty-bound not to turn back becomes such apastime too. We need to take colonists' attitude to re-colonize ourselves. We are the demiurges of era and the object of amusement all at the same time.
Between the tradition and the modernity, there is no room for us to choose. They weigh the same for us, because we can't see the future and don't know the past. Lacking sense of duty and sense of guilt, we become passers-by of this age and rush through the history. Being too indifferent and too obsessed with acting, we become haughty celebrities of this age. Being honest and frank, we become victims, fragile and weak. Together we create the temperament of this age, those ingenious details, airy expressions and spectacles of over-consumption and thorough display of happiness. Is it we that are holding the age, or is it the age that starts to hold us?
Let's set off from "us" and try to interpret the new youngsters' attitude towards life in China.


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