2019, The Imagination of My DeathThree-channel Video Work, Self-performanceThe Imagination of My Death is a body of work that records my performance of traditional Chinese rituals that are normally reserved for the dead. It records me as a mortician conducting these rituals on myself, carefully and respectfully. First, I clean my body and add colour to my pale face. Then I lay on a boat where I drift away with the stream.“The photograph-as-photograph shows death” (Sontag,1976), however for me, the photograph's imaginary potential represents life. In the photograph, I am dead but in the world I am alive, vividly and vibrantly.

2018, One Day As My Dad, Performing the Body, SydneyBlack & White Performative Self-PortraitsPaper Matte10 still prints, 7.5” x 5.5” inchesOne Day As My Dad, is a performative self-portrait series that encapsulated the relationship to my familial connection to my father. It’s the performance of myself encapsulating myself as my father. It’s a process to recover the father-child bonding and to rebuild a broken relationship.

2018, Space & Memory, New Narrative, SydneySelf-Performance Video WorkIn my video work, Space and Memory, I perform as a person who lost her memory and have no idea of who I am, where I am came from, I am on the way to explore, to find, my lost self and identity. And finally, I found them through the marks left on the wall which is the representation of the self at one time, it’s a piece of myself and my identity. The identity was made of a lot of “one time”.

2018, Generation, Photo Artifice, SydneyColour Performative Self-PortraitsPaper Art4 still prints, 16” x 20” inchesInspiring by Gillian Wearing's work, Family Stories, Generation, a performative self-portrait photographic series that define myself as a female character in my family. It’s the performance of myself encapsulating myself as my grandmother, my mother, my sister and me in our 20’s. It's a representation of all female family members from the eldest to the youngest. In an opposite way, it represents how I am influenced as a grandchild, a daughter, a sister and myself who grow up with our typical culture background in my family.

2019, The Imagniation of My DeathDesaturated Performative Self-PortraitPaper Rag23.4" x 33.1" inchesThe Imagination of My Death is my latest accomplished body of work which including a still print and a video. It's a process of exploring self-death and self-identity. During the process of making The Imagination of My Death, my camera, is, like what Sontag wrote, “... – wittingly or unwittingly – the recording angels of death”(Sontag,1976). It records the process of a traditional Chinese ritual, it records me imitate a mortician to conduct the ritual carefully and respectfully on myself. It records my imagination of the last moment of me as a family, a friend and an existed life in this world. It also records how I experience the mystery of death in a different perspective of when I am as a photographer who planned, produced and directed the whole process of my death, a leading object who make the self to experience the last moment of self-presence, a side object who acted as a mortician to conduct the ritual on the leading one and meanwhile the leading object to feel the last step of purification.
“The photograph-as-photograph shows death” (Sontag,1976), however the photography as imagination presents life. Death is a photography, which maintain the moment of death in the present, for the viewer, but for me, It’s the process of summarize and rediscover my identification and my presence. I’m died in the photography but I am alive in the world, vividly and vibrantly.

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