The Prisoner Floating in the Air

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2021

8K

1minute 53 seconds

Digital inkjet print on Chinese Calligraphy Practice Paper

 

The man in the video who keeps walking is my neighbor. Every time I met him on a long vacation in college, I could feel that he was under a lot of pressure, sometimes confused about his major, sometimes confused about his love affair with his girlfriend. Faced with his family’s expectations for his future and all the invisible constraints, he didn’t seem to know where he was going. Still, he needed to keep moving forward, to keep walking on the paper covered with red lines, walking through the familiar and neglected streets.

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