Unequal Invaders

Photography
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Unequal Invaders

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Unequal invaders, 2019, Digital Photography, 60*40cm

More and more women of my age around me become mothers, and they more or less begin to complain to me about their children’s changes in their lives. I began to think about how parents get along with their children. On the one hand, I’m afraid that like the traditional Chinese family, after having a child, parents begin to lose their independence and no longer have independent social interaction and interest. All of their life revolves around children; on the other hand, what I made further reflection is whether the loss of independence of parents is really a way for children to grow up healthily. I hope that through the observation and discussion of the relationship between parents and children, we can find out the problems that are really worth thinking and solving.

In the initial creation, I photographed a series of scenes of parents getting along with their children in Beijing through observing specific places. It is worth mentioning that these parents are willing to spend a long time accompanying their children and can get a sense of content in the process. Here we put aside the psychological factors such as parents’ complementation of their self-cognition and self-deficiency through their children, and simply look at the relative relationship between parents and children. I assume that parents and children have their own completely independent space respectively. So to what extent parents are involved in children’s space and children are involved in parents’ space, the delicate balance between them may become an important consideration for us to study and measure whether the relationship between parents and children is healthy.

Unequal invaders #1-4, 2019, Digital Photography, 60*40cm

Unequal invaders #5-6, 2019, Digital Photography, 60*40cm

In these attempts, I only intercepted the parents’ situation in the game space in the fixed scene, presented the parents’ complete occupation of the children’s game space. Although generally speaking, the parents’ accompany to the children is usually positive, when the parents completely occupy the children’s space, based on the general sense of Chinese parents lifestyle that regards children as the center, I hope to present an extreme state of the relationship between the them so as to make the audience re-examine the mode of getting along with each other and be alert to have an over corrected attitude of accompanying.

I began to try to build pictures to complete shooting, and reversed the previous theme I tried completely. Previously, I subjectively presented parents’ complete occupation of children’s game space. In this attempt, I designed scenes that put children in their parents’ work places, hoping to discuss the sense of balance between parents and children’s space in a humorous form through such pictures.

Unequal invaders #7-8, 2019, Digital Photography, 60*40cm

In this topic, my current discussion focuses on the balance of space between parents and children. In the creation plan in the future, I hope to make some more abstract attempts to reflect China’s more introverted expression habits. Use the attributes of objects to compare parent-child relationships, such as plants, ice and other things that will change over time. And more research results about parent-child relationship are obtained through more intensive research and visiting scholars.