On The Way to The Beach Alone
独自去海边的路上
Photography Project by Yi Zhou
UK, 2023-ogoing project, Roll Film
When the boundaries between sensation and reality became ambiguous, I had to pick up the camera. It was a chaotic moment, when the world trembled along with its own strangeness, and I found myself wandering at the seaside of Margate. The reality that photography tackled which is differentiated from the material reality, which is, in fact, the reality that is stirred and driven by sensation. The lightness and tranquilness of the sensation per se. A moment of surrendering oneself to the scenery.
A passion that has not been there, yet has somehow dwelled in the image. A passion towards a perfectualised life, a perfectualised intimacy that is nevertheless generated from the curiosity of how to share your innermost feelings with people. It is through the perpetual imagination of life that all the experiences found their own preciousness.
Love is the decisive frame, in which the sensation endures the unexplainable confusion of the constant solitude of living in this world. It is a fragmentary stage of mind that the stillness of the material image starts its secret movement when it is exposed to a passenger’s view. The vitality of image comes from the depth of understanding that is could ever contain.
It is a libido of both the self and the landscape, where the tranquil surface of landscape has become an invitation of what is hidden inside. The real narrative of moving image is the narrative that is driven by the sensation, the libido of seeing the surface of landscape but never gets satisfied with that. My confusion, my imperfect practice of intimacy, my feelings that resonate with my spiritual exile, my idealism that gets preserved in the flowing water, and, most importantly, my unbreakable determination as a living artist. The view that integrates and disperses as in the totality of the seaside nomadism. Images serve as physical archives of memories, preserving them.
