Map on the mask (10 stories of self-exile on the westward journey)

Author: Liao Wenying
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: The transparent sky is a face far from the hustle and bustle, falling in the land beyond the clouds. Here, time has no scale, no minutes and seconds within the circle's outline, as space and time begin to reverse. Walking on the endless road extending to the horizon is a journey of detachment, the vivid and real faces weaving together form a completely, perfectly, and perfect map of Yunnan. This is a story related to photography. The story unfolds because life is merely an object that will die! What is eternal? I don’t know now, and I may not know in the future. I only know that the things I believed were eternal in childhood were not eternal. Seeking is an endless darkness; hope is the fire burning in the darkness. The flames are frozen in a click, instantly becoming eternal. — Make the moment eternal. The beginning of this book was simply because that senior asked me to write something about Yunnan, and I also met an editor who proofread my manuscript four times. Emotions lasting less than one-eighth of a second are a representation of postmodernism. I can never pre-determine what I capture when I press the shutter button in alignment with the frame, because in the fraction of a second the mirror reflex releases the shutter, I see my own eyes. In that moment, my soul collides with the soul of the subject (it). The space between the two collisions is the third dimension between me and it (her, him).