FAMILY TRACE
Apr. 2021
Experimental Video
The traces of my parents and ancestors are like birthmarks on my body—inescapable and indelible. In my early years, I often tried to escape my family’s influence, but with little success. During a trip to visit ancestral graves, I began to listen—to my mother, to my grandmother, to the stories—and I started to reconsider what family truly meant to me.
This project uses photography and 3D video to reconstruct memory and emotion. I collected and disassembled old family photos, digitally rebuilt familiar spaces using 3D scanning, and reassembled them in C4D into new narrative compositions. These reimagined visuals are not simply fragments, but a deep reconfiguration of emotional structure and self-perception.
Through this process, I reflect on my evolving relationship with family, my reconciliation with self, and a renewed understanding of intimacy and lineage.
我的父母与祖先的痕迹就像我身体上的胎记，无法抹去。年少时，我一度试图逃离家庭带来的影响，但始终无果。一次祭祖之旅，在听母亲与祖母回忆往事的过程中，我开始重新审视“家族”这一概念，意识到我与家人之间的情感连接，从未真正消失。
本项目通过摄影与 3D 视频展开。我收集并拆解家族老照片中的人物与场景，并结合 3D 扫描技术还原记忆中的真实空间，在 C4D 中重新编织成叙事性图像。这些新构图像不仅是记忆碎片的拼贴，更是一种情感结构的重组与自我认知的再整理。
通过视觉语言，我讲述了与家庭的关系、与自我的和解，以及对“亲情”重新建立的理解。