Kaixiang Zhang
Upstream
Awagami Kozo paper archival giclée print, archival sleeves, laser-engraved bookmark label, ring binder mechanism, Lure bait, and snail shell
30.5 ×
35
×
5 cm
In the summer of 2024, I returned to Wenzhou and captured the photograph that anchors this piece while swimming in the river with my family. As I grow older, memory frequently carries me back to an unexpected moment of my childhood, bringing a sensory flashback so vivid yet completely detached from any specific date or year.
When past memories are fished out from the river of time like a photo album, each year of my past life is turned like a single page. As we attempt to cast ourselves backward and journey upstream against the current of time, turning page by page, memory becomes more and more elusive and difficult to discern. Childhood memory, much like what I observed in the river that summer, remains nothing more than fleeting, shimmering glints flickering upon the water.