THE NOMADLAND

& Twelve Tales

The Nomadland is an imaginary and ephemeral installation aimed at reflecting the desire to escape from and assimilated to the city

Content Preface

You might have experienced this situation, my dear reader, after waking up from a familiar but surreal dream, there was a moment when you more or less felt alienation from the real world. It might slip before your mind now and then like a fleeting shadow, or be interpreted as blurred images or words and eventually become a fortuitous memory. I'm obsessed with this idea. Therefore, I made a prompt decision to collate and publish them when I came across these manuscripts at a shop corner.

It was composed with 12 short poems, scattered around with no front page. Except that, there was no more information of when or by whom they were written. As I started to collate, I could distinguish two writers by handwriting; one is tidy and another is more like a random diary. Their poems are varied in perspective, but strangely, delivered a similar absurd and fragmented atmosphere. Later, I commissioned friends to illustrate each poem to make the narrative richer, and then arrange them with our personal perception. We are not able to find the source of these tales, but they certainly are expressing a more mysterious story. Then, please forget the reality for a moment and enter this intersected dream.

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Check Point

He is reborn as he moves freely among the boundaries.

Each stamp is like a scalding brand of his mind.

The nameless crave identity, like the passenger thirst for stillness.

Endlessly travelling drown his clamour of silence.

The fading past flourishes in the impotent’s dream, Where he could be settled again.

Ii

Lightbox

We praise the image sensor, its skeleton forms our connection.

The daydream of understanding each other, has been sealed in a black box.

Where unescapable light flutters around.

We barricade against the different.

But tonight, we meet again in the delusion of those white eyes.