“Before loss” is a project about the last moment before we are going to lose something or someone. The idea of this project came from the period while my grandma was in the hospital one and a half years ago. There was an old man who was in the same sickroom with my grandma. In the first few days, that old man looks not bad. However, one day after I got home, in the phone call, my grandpa told me that the old man passed away. I was shocked. Next day, when I back to the hospital, the sickbed of that old man just became empty. It seems that everything was gone. It is so fast. Losing someone or something happens so fast, maybe just next day, next moment... And unfortunately, we must face loss in our life, because life is a process of constant loss. I am a person who is extremely scared of losing, so I have always been thinking what we can do before we are going to lose something or someone and what fully cherish is. Under the conditions of known, are we just let the loss go? Or maybe we can do something?

 

So, in this project I have captured the moment just before loss. Such as an almost broken rope, a falling glass, last part of the melting ice, the last food left in the fridge and etc. And after one more step, we are going to totally lose them. I intended to use this project to appeal the audience to cherish the moment, to cherish what we have right now, to cherish the person who is still keeping accompany with us, because maybe the loss will happen just next moment. Life is short, loss is fast. Also, I want the audience to think the question “what I can do before loss? “ 

 

 

Before Loss是一个关于失去的作品集。作品集里所有的照片都处于失去前的最后一刻。这个作品的灵感来源于奶奶两年前住院的时候。当时，和我奶奶在同一病房里的还有一位老先生，在头几天，我去病房看望奶奶的时候，那位老先生看上去都还挺健康的。 然而，有一天，我从医院回到家后，突然接到了奶奶的来电，告知我那位老先生刚刚过世了，我很震惊。第二天，当我再次回到病房的时候，病床上已空无一人，只剩一张白色床单，好像一切都已逝去。那一刻，我突然意识到失去一个人一件物品发生得如此快，可能是明天，可能是下一秒……然而不幸的是，在我们的人生中，我们都不得不去面对这些失去，因为生活就是一个不断失去的过程。我自己是一个极度害怕失去的人，我常常会想，会问自己：在我们即将要失去某人某物的前一刻我们能做什么？什么又算是完全的珍惜？在已知的条件下，我们是否只能眼睁睁看着这些人或物的逝去？或许我们也可以做些什么？

 

所以，在这个作品中，我捕捉了一些在失去前一刻的模样，比如：一根快断的绳子；一些快掉落的杯子；冰化前的最后一小块等等。或许下一秒，我们就将完完全全地失去它们。我想用这个作品来唤起观众去珍惜当下，珍惜我们现在所有的一切，去珍惜还陪伴着我们的人们，因为或许下一秒我们就会失去这些。人生苦短，失去也许就在下一秒。与此同时，我也希望观众能思考同样的问题“我们在失去前到底能做什么？”