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Many Lives in A Flower
Many Lives in A Flower is a photographic series centered on Queen Anne’s Lace, inspired by the visual language of traditional Chinese Song-dynasty painting. Rather than documenting the flower as a botanical subject, the series treats it as a vessel for shifting states of existence.
Through changes in light, focus, distance, and atmosphere, the same flower appears solitary, dispersed, luminous, or nearly dissolving. These transformations echo the Song painters’ practice of returning to a single motif to express different inner states, emphasizing spirit (气韵) over form.
Negative space, softness, and restraint play an essential role, allowing emptiness to function as presence rather than absence. The images do not seek to capture a decisive moment, but to suggest time unfolding quietly—where one flower holds many lives, and meaning emerges through attentive seeing.