Soft Edges 柔软边界

​

「柔软边界」源于我对观看与知觉关系的持续观察。当边缘开始变软，世界并没有改变，改变的是我们辨认世界的方式。我使用中画幅胶片相机拍摄了夜晚的公共空间。公共空间依靠清晰的边界维持其秩序：道路与广场、树木与建筑、主体与背景，共同构成我们辨认空间的依据。夜幕降临后，光逐渐成为塑造空间的主要媒介，公共空间原本清晰的边界逐渐失去稳定性开始松动。长曝光拍摄进一步延长了这一过程，使光不断溢出物体原有的轮廓，空间原本清晰的视觉秩序开始被重新组织。当这些边缘被时间与光逐渐柔化，我们辨认世界的方式也随之发生改变。感知开始失真，现实开始失去可辨认性，主体与背景、外部空间与心理经验之间的界限不断渗透，最终停留在一种无法被完全定义的过渡时刻。

​

Soft Edges emerges from my ongoing observation of the relationship between seeing and perception. When edges begin to soften, the world itself does not change; what changes is the way we recognize and make sense of it.

Using a medium-format film camera, I photograph public spaces at night. Public space relies on clearly defined boundaries to maintain its order: roads and squares, trees and buildings, foreground and background together provide the visual structure through which we recognize and navigate space. As night falls, light gradually becomes the primary medium through which space is shaped, and these once-stable boundaries begin to lose their clarity and stability. Long-exposure photography extends this process, allowing light to spill beyond the original contours of objects and gradually reorganize the visual order of space.

As these edges are softened by time and light, our way of perceiving the world begins to shift. Perception becomes unsettled, reality gradually loses its recognizability, and the boundaries between foreground and background, external space and psychological experience begin to permeate one another. The images ultimately linger in a transitional moment that resists fixed definition.​