Wall
This series focuses on urban walls, photographed frontally and flattened within the frame to observe the accumulated colors, textures, graffiti, signs, and traces of time. The wall is not only an architectural boundary, but also a kind of urban message board, recording the visual layers shaped by both human activity and natural erosion.
When photographing walls, I try to minimize the sense of depth and ignore the Z-axis as much as possible, allowing the image to approach flatness and letting the surface of the wall fill the frame. Through this way of seeing, the wall is no longer merely a part of architecture, but becomes a flat object that carries color, shape, material, texture, and traces. Within these surfaces, I observe the accumulated messages left on the wall: graffiti, advertisements, Spring Festival couplets, slogans, decorations, and various marks made by human activity. At the same time, time itself also leaves its own traces—rust, peeling paint, stains, weathering, and fading—placing the wall somewhere between everyday documentation and abstract painting. To me, these walls are like message boards within the city, as well as images collectively shaped by natural time and human behavior. They are not works created by a single author, but visual layers that gradually emerge through use, neglect, repair, and erosion.
