I have lived roughly half my life in China and half in the United States. This is not a story of departure and arrival — it is a condition, ongoing and without resolution. My work begins there, in the space where neither country is home and both are.
I photograph landscapes that resist the picturesque: highway margins, aging infrastructure, suburban edges, surfaces marked by weather and use. I am drawn to what remains after attention has moved elsewhere — the material evidence of habitation rather than its spectacle. Working in the tradition of the New Topographics, I treat the American terrain not as wilderness or symbol but as built environment, shaped by ordinary decisions and quiet accumulation.
What interests me is not displacement as crisis but as a sustained, habituated state — a way of seeing that comes from long suspens