Closer is a personal video project of mine in 2016. The goal was to edit and produce documented life moments every month and release them at the beginning of the following month.
On the Earth Day of 2021, "Closer" was back with two new chapters.
All proceeds from this series were donated to a green charity.
Winter · Spring
Emerging from the city's tunnels, one enters a valley tinged with the colours of sunset, where goats wander in search of food and rivers flow swiftly through the canyon. In Chengdu, a city that typically experiences only one or two snowfalls a year, this winter brought a snowfall that excited everyone.
After returning home for the Spring Festival, everything was so peaceful and unchanged. We celebrated the new year amidst the gradually blooming cherry and pear blossoms. During the Qingming Festival, we returned to our parents' hometown to pay respects at the graves and picked fresh oranges and tea leaves. The scent of spring is the scent of home.
Summer · Autumn
The smell of a pastel September,
The smell of September always makes me feel sentimental.
This town I have lived in all my life is now producing a kind of smell,
Mixed with a bit of osmanthus and a few night breezes.
It’s the smell of early autumn.
Every weekend when I walk under a bridge, I see a ballroom of multi-talented, singing, and dancing elderly people, which seems to have been held every week for over a decade.
Looking up, I see the bright magical moon, its moonlight shining down on me. I love it.
Summer · Autumn
The smell of a pastel September,
The smell of September always makes me feel sentimental.
This town I have lived in all my life is now producing a kind of smell,
Mixed with a bit of osmanthus and a few night breezes.
It’s the smell of early autumn.
Every weekend when I walk under a bridge, I see a ballroom of multi-talented, singing, and dancing elderly people, which seems to have been held every week for over a decade.
Looking up, I see the bright magical moon, its moonlight shining down on me. I love it.
