FROM / TO
来 / 归
What is Between Comes and Goes?
什么存在于起止之间？
Every path leads homeward,
— Hermann Hesse
every step is birth,
every step is death,
every grave is mother.
Family Oral Histories
A talk across generations, A talk between mothers and daughters.
“Home is the place you can go back to.“
Pei, 22, in Singapore
“I don’t know where to go.”
Long, 23, in Guangzhou, Guangdong
“The present is the yet to come.”
Kang, 23, in New York, NY
“Here we were born, we grew, and we age.“
Chenchen, 52, in Zhumadian, Henan
“You all cut off from us.”
Hong, 53, in Anyang, Henan
“All I hope is you don’t go too far.”
Lucy, 52, in Shenzhen, Guangdong
“Look how happy lives of your generation are.“
Guo, 83, in Zhumadian, Henan
“In lifetime, I done nothing I feel guilty about.”
Liu, 79, in Taoyuan, Hunan