Artist Statement
“Hello World” is often the first line of code written by first-time coders to make something visible. For me, it also reflects a recurring gesture in my practice: arriving, observing, and addressing the world through movement and encounter. More than a record of travel, this body of work engages with the familiar saying “读万卷书，行万里路”—to read extensively and to travel far. Rather than treating it as advice, I approach it as an open question. How do different forms of learning, classroom study and lived experience, shape growth in distinct ways? Throughout my travels, I continue to return to this question, asking what kinds of understanding emerge only through presence, distance, and time.
My work does not attempt to resolve this tension, but instead explores it through practice. Across the projects presented here, I work with multiple media, producing some pieces on site and others retrospectively, shaped by memory and reflection. These works privilege subjective observation and reflection over factual documentation, allowing personal perception and temporal gaps to remain visible. By resisting the assumption that learning is confined to pedagogical settings, my practice engages with broader themes of growth, maturity, memory, and time. The work remains intentionally open-ended, inviting viewers to consider how knowledge is formed through different modes of experience.
