Studio Magazine: Please talk about the start of the Studio Mobile and the stories behind it.
With my studio, I set off. Maleonn started the Studio Mobile mainly because his previous studio was pulled down. It happened last year, but Maleonn was a kind person so he didn’t want to be a nail household. Currently he starts his new studio in Sijing, Songjiang, with a comparatively low rent. In a short span of eight years, he has been forced to move for three times. “You never know where you’ll be on next day, just like what’s happening in today’s society.”
To some extend, this experience made me realize that things keep changing. It has been my ninth year since I engaged myself in photography. Sometimes I do worry that I will run out of the passion for photography one day, especially when it’s 2012 and people say we’ll face disasters or some huge changes. Moreover, I turned 40 this year, which is indeed a turning point for my life and I can tell that many aspects of it, including the way I live and the way I treat myself, are going to change. At some points, I think it’s time that I returned to a “normal” person, for my parents aged and my youth slipped with years rolling on. Creating art is after all a crazy idea, which exhausts me from time to time. Perhaps it’s never been clear to me what is the “art” that I’m going after? In this case, I took this trip so as to give myself an answer by getting back to the passionate life, contacting people, devoting my talent and efforts to the world as a present. I want to see what I can do for the world. It owes me nothing, but rather, I’ve been in the ivory tower for long and I’ve owed my friends a great dea