Friendship / Duality
It’s 1am. Silence in the background, just listening to rules and logic wrestle my imagination. I constantly fall in and out of love with every photo on the floor. Then despise my self and doubt my work. Why am I doing this? Who’s this for?
In Chinatown, I wanted to snap photos with romanticism one day, curiosity the next. I photographed with feeling in the rain, then with technique in cruel light. With the backdrop of a changing landscape, I wanted to see the people that live in it. I wanted to fall in and out of love with every subject, living or concrete. An impression of a Wong Kong-wai burnt into my mind, “undying love”, “we were just 0.1 cm apart” or
"The louder the better. Stops me from thinking."
So, I’m publishing the first part of my project Friendship as a virtual gallery, with the idea that this project may never end. Because my hope is that Philadelphia’s small, but rich Chinatown will never either.
