“Twelve Scenes” is an experimental work I conceived this year in collaboration with my daughter Wang Zi. It was in January of 2010 that God gave me this angelic daughter. In 2014, I took her with me to Guizhou for Chinese New Year. During our trip she took out pen and paper to mimic her adult companion in composing a travel journal. It was most endearing, the way she made such a tome out of her private musings, albeit these remained quite incomprehensible to anyone but her. Thinking back, she’d been writing like this for about six months by then.
For the work “Twelve Scenes” I selected twelve photographic images, many of which related to death in some way, allowing Wang Zi to write on each. In my opinion, this scrawl itself represents a sort of renewal, a rebirthing. It also resembles a peculiar sort of symbolic writing, allusively meaningful some how, working to transport the images to an unspecified and far-off place.