I love to see how an artistic project transform itself over the years. Monuments and paper landscape are two new layers during my residency time in Germany. What do these monuments mean? In the industrial times, giant monuments like shafts, slag heaps, chimney, coking plants, cooling towers start to be everywhere in the flat land, like a monster or a landmark in people’s life and in their surrounding landscape, bringing air pollution but also industrial evolution. There is some photography that kids are having soccer game competition with the coal mining shafts in the background. The coal mining site also developed and became a village where people and families live and work. Over time, after coal mining was finished, some factories were abandoned, some have become museums, industrial heritage sites, studios or theatres for performing artists, or recreational sites for people in the community after governments invited architects or sculptors to design onsite installations, for example, Tiger and Turtle in Duisburg, NRW, Germany. So does the Zollverein in Essen, being part of UNESCO, the whole complex has become museums, restaurants, theatre companies office and storage places, university buildings, artistic organisations, etc, and the office very often host activities for local residents and international tourists to engage and participate.

In terms of paper rolls, in the past they were used to exhibit the charcoal drawing, or the big scale paper to be drawn. During the residency at Tanzrecherche NRW, while folding and curving, intuitively I found them work more amazingly to create landscape symbolizing the two rivers at Ruhr area – river Rhein and river Ruhr, which is where the coal mining industry located.