Shan Hai Jing
Shan Hai Jing
by Holly Lee
"Shan Hai Jing is a photographic collection of park panoramas, a travelogue through time, myths and imagination. Having lived for a number of years in Canada, I started to feel a sense of belonging, and eager to explore different textures of the city. I started to photograph parks, which are abundant in Toronto. The preoccupation of shooting parks perhaps arises from the aspiration of wanting to see things beyond specific time, space and geographic locations. A mind journey. Are there more stories to tell, things to be reckoned with in these seemingly ordinary places? My passage is not guarded nor ruled by time. Moving between the real and the imaginary, springing and bouncing off the trampoline to create free falls. In other words, my idea is to "rephrase" the ancient Shan Hai Jing texts with my own observation and narration, mixing contemporary and old, familiar and unfamiliar, visible and invisible, an acrobatic act springing back and forth in the arc of time."