Four years ago, on a street in Boston, I experienced one of the loneliest moments in my life. That day, a warm golden light fell upon the pavement – instantly transported me seven thousand miles away, back to Beijing. In that moment, I realized that light does not belong to any one place.
Light illuminates the world, and also illuminates me. It lights up Beijing just as it lights up Boston. It exists beyond geography, beyond time. This understanding turned light into my silent companion, a presence crossing borders, anchoring me in unfamiliar spaces.

Through my lens, light became a tool to shape a world—not just illuminating reality. It connects the past and the present,  the near and the far, intertwines solitude with connection. In this space I have created, self and community, loneliness and belonging are not opposites; they coexist and depend on each other.

I repeatedly turn the lens toward myself. Myself appears in the images—sometimes blurred, sometimes clear; sometimes facing the camera, sometimes turning away. Each time I press the shutter, I am both the creator and the observer, the photographer and the photograph. In addition, I photograph my friends as a way to convey ideas of loneliness and belonging. These photographs serve as emotional annotations, conversations between brief connection and enduring solitude. They are not secondary, but rather fragments and traces emerging within this utopian space.

To viewers, my friends who appear in my photographs are unfamiliar and unrecognizable faces—there is no way for them to know the moments we once shared. My friends are no longer live near me， But through my photographs,  I’m pretending that we are still together.

I am not photographing a  specific location but an emotional state—a transitional space between intimacy and solitude, clarity and ambiguity, past and present. Here, I am no longer adrift. The photograph is not to escape from reality, but to create a  space in-between: a place where some things have not yet departed, some might return, and some are still waiting to be named.