Home,swim home/游泳回家
This practice-led research project uses photography to explore the connections and tensions between home, distance, and memory. The project originates from my personal experience as a Chinese international student and an only child due to the one–child policy. When reflecting on my distance from home, the longing and process of returning are transformed into a metaphorical act of “swimming.” Through black-and-white photography, material experiments, and sound exploration, this research aims to construct a fragmented and floating emotional space rather than a straightforward visual narrative, thus conveying the uncertainty and the unspoken that exist within feelings of displacement, migration, and intimacy. In the process, the research and work also reflect on the idea of the “third space,” highlighting states of transition, gaps, and multiple identities within diasporic experience. Ultimately, this research examines how photography can become a medium that evokes silent emotional landscapes, fostering a resonance between private memory and collective experiences of migration, much like the rhythm of swimming back and forth between departure, arrival, and longing.
Ins: @preludewaist
Email: preludewaist@gmail.com
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