Human being has memories. Whether they are memories of people, things, or places, recording them helps keep those memories from fading away. There are various forms of recording memories, such as through drawing, taking notes, and different artˇforms. The creators chose to preserve the memories of historical places. Traveling to meet through photographic art, once when traveling to be an artist in residence in La Rochelle, France, led to encountering some traces of the past. The tower building stands proudly facing the seashore. The interesting thing is, this tower used to be an old prison that held prisoners in the past. They had scribbled letters, books in many languages, and drawings of ships and other things on the stone walls. Using a spoon to eat or hard materials to paint them with difficulty, I imagined myself going back to the time when they were imprisoned in this tower when visiting that place. The darkness, loneliness, fear, and hopelessness that surrounded them.
The artworks records the historical traces of the port city of La Rochelle through one’s own memories, using the Lumen Print technique to create the work?a technique where sunlight creates an image on paper called Gelatin Silver Print. The imperfections in the image are unpredictable, reminding me of the language of painting on the stone in the tower of the warlord at the same time.