Tianxingzhou, one of the largest sandbars on the Yangtze section, It began as a deserted island, has over 800 years of history, and has flooded frequently since it took shape. Today, all that remains of the island are the elderly residents, old houses, and the large reeds.

In recent years, it has continued to drift downstream at a speed that the naked eye cannot survey, continuously impacting the landscape and human activities in the region. During the annual dry season, the head of the sandbar reveals a vast desert formed by the sediment transported from upstream. During the high season, the head of the sandbars is the first section to disappear and sink into the river.  Therefore no buildings, crops, or farmland can remain, creating a deserted scene. At the end of the sandbars which were far away from the direct scouring force, people built embankments and houses, planted fruits and vegetables, and cultivated farmland, presenting a completely different geomorphological feature than the head of the island.

 

Since 2021, the artist has repeatedly visited this sandbank, which has been deposited and drifted over a long period, connecting it with her wandering past and becoming an embodied image of her homeland.

In this work, the artist re-enters this land that she feels close to, attempting to depict a spatial scene spanning two seasons: red bricks, originally used to build houses on the land, drifting from the tail during the rainy season to the head of the sandbar during the dry season. Through the movement of the wind, they are sent back to the source of the disappearing sandbar due to erosion.