POP is a fusion between street photography and pop art.

Celebrating pop art and neo-pop movements, the series samples some of the iconic pop art subjects, superimposes them into vibrant street scenes, and gives the once-isolated subjects brand new contexts.

Ten years in the making, Necessary Errors is a series of experimental images that are reminiscent of Chinese traditional artworks. 

Captured in New York City between 2009 and 2019, each image in the collection is composed to reflect the characteristics of watercolor, calligraphy, paper cutting, and other forms of classical art from China. 

Combining the silhouette of the city and digitally generated elements, a modern metropolis is transformed into a nostalgic oasis.

Necessary Errors

California, Summer 2020.  

This is where the forest begins, where the valley rises into the mountain, and the first kiss is shared.

This is where the land ends, where the river meets the ocean, and the lovers say goodbye.

This is where nothing happened, everything yet to take place.

Viewpoint

“‘Is dying hard, Daddy?’

‘No, I think it’s pretty easy, Nick. It all depends.’

They were seated in the boat, Nick in the stern, his father rowing. The sun was coming up over the hills. A bass jumped, making a circle in the water. Nick trailed his hand in the water. It felt warm in the sharp chill of the morning.

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.”

― Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

In Our Time

Last night I heard the ocean singing in my dream. 

Under the starless sky, a wave traveled at a constant speed toward the distant shore.

Then the sun came up.

Illumination

“It was an amazing story. What time I was making too, four hundred miles in seven hours! Ahead of me burned the vision of Golden Hollywood. Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” 

― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

On The Road

Some say that you would be here during the springtime, so I went out looking for you every day.

The sidewalk ended at the edge of this small town and the season came and went, but you were nowhere to be found.

Outside my window in the distance, I saw a tree blooming, as promised.

Bloom

If time travel were possible, would the heartbroken still fall in love?

If the unforeseen were visible on the horizon, would it still be overlooked?

And if the truth were inconvenient, should it still be told?

Conception

All images captured during a flight from New York to San Francisco in 2020.   

“Ask me not where I am from, far away is my home. Why do I wander afar, to the horizon beyond the star. For the birds flying in the sky, the streams running in the valley, and the grassland so vast. As well as, the olive tree in my dreams.”

- San Mao, Olive Tree 

Wanderlust

At the Museum is a collection of images that exhibit how museum-goers interact with artwork and antiquities in the modern era. The idea of the project was born in 2012, after a visit to Tate Modern in London, where a performance art piece invited the audience to participate.

At the Museum

The Hours series was created between 2012 and 2015. All Images were shot through the windows of an apartment located on Upper West Side of New York. 

“I remember one morning getting up at dawn. There was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling. And I... I remember thinking to myself: So this is the beginning of happiness, this is where it starts. And of course there will always be more...never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment, right then.” 

― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

Journey Gong