Wenrui Zhao

China, 1996

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Thesis: I Am Sitting in a Ruin

The Concrete Road

Landscape shifts, unmodernised desires.

This is a story comprising three avatars of myself talking to and interviewing each other, reflecting on memories and weaving a path on coming of age.

Sticky childhood memory which never fades. Loosely fitted gender/racial identity struts in juvenile cravings. Self-loathing, negation of the past, and his frowning parents.

The tyranny of modernism leaves a leaky path for the protagonist to escape and slobber in a dream of wet summer night.