The Journey of Picking Up Branches

The Journey of Picking Up Branches / 《树枝捡拾记》, 2023 — single-channel colour video with sound, 7 min 10 sec单屏彩色有声影像，7 分 10 秒

Structured in three chapters — Insects Camouflaged as Branches, The Slingshot Game, and To the Oak — the video connects private memories surrounding branches to questions of ecology, colonialism, and gender. Camouflage, the disturbance of a bird’s habitat, and the imagined gaze between kapok and oak trees become ways of thinking about vulnerability, violence, literacy, and equality across human and non-human worlds.影像由“伪装成树枝的虫”“弹弓游戏”“《致橡树》”三个章节组成，以围绕树枝的私人记忆连接生态、殖民与性别问题。伪装、对鸟类栖居的打扰，以及木棉与橡树之间想象的凝视，构成对人类与非人类世界中脆弱性、暴力、识字与平等的思考。