Across the water

This project is based on the social context of the Coal-Exit in Germany and the impact of climate and structural change on the landscape and the inhabitants of the area. Focusing primarily on landscapes that have been artificially altered by structural change, I eventually completed the shoot with a focus on opencast mining lakes.

In this work, I have tried to blur the boundaries between the sky and the lake, allowing them to exist in harmony with each other. I intentionally distanced my point of view from the subject, creating an absurd contrast between the small people and the wide environment in order to introduce some unrealistic elements into the natural environment, ultimately presenting a quietly surrealistic image.

In this way, the photographs themselves can be made to be more than two-dimensional static images, and more able to transcend the present time and space, allowing the viewer to see this change we are experiencing in a higher dimension. And in this wave of change and alteration, we humans leave our own footprints in one way or another, a corner of society is uprooted and transformed, and humans seem to emerge in a way that is not real and ephemeral. Such a change hits the lives associated with it, and while we witness it, we participate in it. And finally, when the wave has passed, what will continue, what will remain, what will be forgotten and what will be remembered are the questions and reflections we have at the moment.

Ultimately, what can be discussed is that in the wave of change, we as human beings have left our footprints in one way or another, we have witnessed it and we have participated in it. A corner of society has been uprooted and transformed, and no one can be sure whether what we have seen and experienced has been built or destroyed. And in the end when the wave has passed, what will continue, what will be left behind, what will be forgotten and what will be remembered, no one knows.

在水一方

这个项目以德国的煤炭淘汰为社会背景，来气候和结构变化对景观和该地区居民的影响。主要关注于那些因为结构变化而被人为改造过的风景，最终我以人工矿湖为对象完成了拍摄。

在作品中，我试图模糊天空与湖面之间的界限，让他们相互和谐的存在。并且我有意将自己的视角与拍摄对象拉开遥远的距离，以渺小的人和宽阔的环境来形成荒谬的对比，以便在真实的自然环境中创造一些不真实的元素，最终呈现出一种静谧的超现实主义的画面。

通过这样的方式，可以让照片本身不只是二维的静态图像，更能跨越当下的时间和空间，可以让观众在一个更高的维度去看待我们所经历的这场变革。而在这场变革和变化的浪潮中，我们人类或多或少的留下自己的足迹，社会的某个角落被连根拔起，改头换面，而人类也似乎以一种非真实和短暂的方式出现。这样的变迁冲击着与之相关的生活，而我们在见证了它的同时，也参与在了其中。而最后当这场浪潮过去，什么会继续，什么会留下，什么会被遗忘，什么又会被记住，则是我们当下对此的疑问和反思。

最终可讨论的便是：在变化的浪潮中，我们人类或多或少的留下自己的足迹，我们见证了它，也参与在了其中。社会的某个角落被连根拔起，改头换面，谁也不能确定，我们所看到的和经历的这一切，是被建造还是被摧毁。而最后当这场浪潮过去，什么会继续，什么会留下，什么会被遗忘，什么又会被记住，没有人知道。

/ 2020