Searching the Roots

Medium: Performance 

Duration: 4 min 29 sec

Year: 2021 

 

There is an idiom, "Fallen leaves return to their roots," in Chinese culture. Roots symbolize the origin. After years of my nomadic experience, I traveled back to the Chinese village where I was born to search for my "roots." I excavated a burned tree stump, like an archeologist, digging deep to find the past. 

 

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