Shoot Outside/窗口對外

Photography (transparency), ongoing project (since 2019)

The Second World War put my city in touch with the world on a page in history. Bombs below the busy streets, or the war relics hidden on maps, are witnesses to the historical event. I followed the Northeast military trail to previous war sites: Are they merely results of conflicts between geographical boundaries? Are we fending off the view outside the window, or the ideological intrusion?

I sealed the window and punched a hole in it. Light entered like the bullets shot. The defender and the offender, at the end, are compressed as one.

在歷史的緯度，二戰把我城的一段時期與世界放在同一軌道上。戰事遺留下來，可會是偶然在鬧市發現的炮彈，或是隱匿於地景的軍事遺跡。我沿著東北軍事地區走訪多個遺址，看到的是關聯著地理上的敵我而又潛藏著的衝突。要防禦的是窗口對外的景致，還是意識上的侵略？
我把那數個窗口封起，開了小孔，把射程的光線引進，以另一種方式發射當年何曾發出的子彈。最終，防禦者及攻擊方壓縮在一起。

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The Process