"After more than a decade taking photographs of dilapidated walls, the beauty in the abandoned always touches me. Since many people could not understand, I edited the photographs slightly so that you could see what I see."
- WEN Fang
Wall-1 is the first photo Wen Fang took and it gives an indication of what is to come in the series that will follow. This image, in muted blue and beige with a prominent dark bottom edge, is evocative of a dragon which is apropos for a Chinese wall. The movement of the "serpent" is evident, from right...
The red in Wall-2 indicates the location of the wall: in the Forbidden City. The complex in central Beijing that currently houses the Palace Museum was the imperial palace for over 500 years, and the common populace of China was forbidden entrance. It, too, has seen decay, and the image gives a feeling of the murky past of...
Wall 4 shares similar characteristics such as the cell like shapes appearing in high contrast of light to dark hues, but all these unfold in a color palette of blues, pinks and black. The texture consists of cracks and rugged marks, fragments of a decomposing wall. Amoeba like forms are floating around in the photo. The left side...
Again, the tell-tale red in Wall-5 is indicating the original location of this wall. Differently from other images in the series, we don't have to imagine much of what is going on here since it is less abstract and thus easier to comprehend the content of the photograph. In the center we see a square consisting half of bricks...
Different from most pieces in the series that are presented in landscape format, Wall-13is a pair of vertical walls; there is no layering of images on top of one another and the monochromatic feeling goes a lot farther than other images.
The color scheme in Wall-15 is saturated red and black contrasting for the attention of the viewer's eye. The other minor colors, spread across the image like as a painter would carefully scramble pigments into the canvas, create accents in blue, white, and pink.
Wall-17 presents a rather free style as if it was resulted from diluted pigments poured or splashed onto each other. Colors in this photo create a focused theme with the red and blue, the violet and purple hues. As pigments flow and spread all over the surface, our eyes stretch in all directions as well. It is a manifestation of...
