As far as half the way to the Gateway
by Phi Phi AN
These photos are part of a long-running visual archive series named “As far as half the way to the Gateway,” a flow created based on traditional analog photography techniques. The commitment and work process of developing—editing through the darkest and most brutal night hours during these periods—everything is on the verge of collapse, including myself.
I step over the wounded train, the sleepers, the faces of chaotic history and fragile states, across the (mourning) forest and the (self-vanishing) sea, into endless nights out, into the days and the shadow of the distant fire itself, some lost, some half-remembered. A pilgrimage of a sort, a quest for revelation–As far as half the way to the Gateway.
ABOUT THE CREATOR
Phi Phi AN is a Vietnamese independent multi/interdisciplinary artist-director-curator-producer-researcher-activist. Since 2011, she has multifaceted herself with echoes—chambers, deep understanding, building, development, reformation and involvement closely over the scenes, the spaces, the stages, arts and intercultural forms; locally and internationally. Her paths across many [self-vanishing] ((AN))-layered names and roles for each different period; reflecting and expressing frameworks across such multi-dimensional/vision between forms/mediums/platforms of photography, cinema, philosophy, audio-visual, and beyond. A thoughtful way to resurface after a lengthy hiatus passed through fire.
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