Visual Diary: China
Images from our 2018 trip – Lenny & I traveled to Asia to do a wedding reception part two with all of our family that couldn’t come to the US to attend our ceremony. He was born in Singapore, and I was born in China, and 95% of our families are still overseas.
Even though we go visit periodically, I miss China all the time– China as a whole, as a country, places I’ve been, places I haven’t, the people I don’t know, the of course the people I do. It’s a different feeling than missing anything else but I don’t have a different word for it. I feel like its always there, underneath all my other feelings, all the time. Yearning, possibly.
Prepare yourself for a nostalgic view into my homeland– all shot on my #Hasselblad500c, which suddenly broke after this trip – is it ironic? symbolic? rain damage? (see last image)
LEFT–Lenny and I took an overnight sleeper train to the city where my grandma lives.
RIGHT–My uncle, who looks exactly like my dad but younger, and his friend – on a smoke break outside my grandma’s home.
ABOVE–A beautiful city at the foot of the Great Wall.
RIGHT–My mama, who looks like she could be the same age as before she left China in 1997, standing in front of a palace.
LEFT–北海公园 – the park next to where we lived. I would walk here with my grandma daily, both sweating in the humidity, and we would reward ourselves with corn ice cream.
ABOVE–My 奶奶, who raised me from ages 0-5.
ABOVE–My stepmom, grandma, dad, and baby half-sister. My camera broke as I was taking this frame, thats why it’s so blurry– it feels oddly representative of my memories of them.
