Color photo
54 x 80 cm
I have started an experiment with my cousin since 1997. In a banquet
10 years ago, many of my relatives and I celebrated the golden wedding of my
grandpa and grandma. At that time, they were still alive. Sitting next to a
cousin named Ming in our relative banquet is my custom but we seldom get
together in our daily life. That is hard to explain why we get so close without
much time getting along. To share a thought with him that night, I said, “Time
go by so fast. Can we try to blink our eyes in this moment and endeavor to
remember this blink? Then ten years later, we blink our eyes again; see whether
we have the feeling of time going so fast within a blink or not.” In a relative
banquet in 2007, I sat next to the cousin and we blinked our eyes again. The
feeling of us was incredibly coherent, same like remaining unchanged. I heard a
story about a Chinese painter. The feeling of drawing the first and the last
line to him is same and fresh. We are always we used to be.
