BLUEPRINTS

Blueprints is an installation that uses traditional diazo blueline paper, commonly employed in urban design, architectural, and engineering drawings decades ago, to capture and reinterpret ordinary urban landscapes and the ever-shifting transitions of city spaces in Shanghai. By exposing light-sensitive paper to city infrastructures, construction site remnants, and traces of human activity, I create a personal archive of urban blueprints featuring life-sized abstract blueline images in various scales and shapes.

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These familiar architectural structures are then decomposed and transformed into distorted scales and slices on different materials, inviting audiences to re-examine the subjects. By documenting subtle changes in urban spaces and the trivial occurrences of human life with this old-fashioned photographic technique, I engage with the passage of time and the ephemerality of urban settlements.