《后会有期》Until we meet again

By chance, I came across some vintage slides at a camera market.

These fragments were mundane, scattered, and devoid of logic.

Yet within them, I read tales of farewells and reunions, fate and choices, love and friendship, discovery and growth, solitude and hope, memory and time...

These moments were not just individuals’ memories, they were emotional symbols shared by all of humanity. Whether joy, sorrow, loneliness, or desolation, these emotions transcend time and space, connecting the hearts of everyone. What you see might be your own story or that of a stranger, but they all speak of similar emotions. Nostalgia for the past, anticipation for the future, and a cherishing of the present.

I couldn’t help but wonder, what is time?

Is it an endless flowing ocean or a ripple in a puddle?

Is it the radiance of sunrise and sunset, or the unspeakable emotions deep within our hearts?

 I tried to collect these strangers’ memories and weave them into empathetic visuals through my own artistic practice. 

Here, time is no longer a linear measure but a blurred existence. It is broken down into countless moments, floating like dust between light and shadow. Each set of photos is a deconstruction of time—it belongs neither to the past nor the future but exists in an eternal state outside of time. Just like the emotional memories and psychological experiences universally shared by humanity, they show little trace of being altered by time. 'Until we meet again’ is no longer a promise about time but a questioning of time itself. It reminds us that farewells and reunions are not the beginning or end of time but another form of existence beyond time and space. Each set of photos attempts to erase the marks of time.

 Viewers can freely wander through these moments, feeling their weight without worrying about their sequence. Time, here, becomes irrelevant. What matters are the emotions revived and the ripples they stir within your heart.

 Perhaps, time never truly existed.

It is merely a tool we use to measure memory.

And memory, that is what is eternal.

It is our shared emotional legacy.