Diary of an Apple
2025-Ongoing
Apples, with their form and rich symbolism, have long served as recurring motifs across cultures. The English proverb “you are the apple of my eye” associates the fruit with intimacy, suggesting tenderness and emotional significance.
Having noticed a forgotten apple yellowing and withering in the back of a refrigerator, I could no longer recall when it had been left aside. This project traces the apple’s natural transformation—from freshness through oxidation to decay—as a metaphor for the arc of intimacy: from cherished connection to gradual dissolution.
Shot on film, the delays and unpredictability inherent to the development process echo the silence and lack of control often felt in relationships. The decay of the fruit speaks not only to the irreversibility of time but also to the fragility and transience of human bonds. Much like 17th-century Dutch still lifes, which used decaying fruit to evoke themes of vanity and life’s brevity, this series uses the apple’s organic transformation to translate personal experience into a visual metaphor of intimacy and forgetting.
苹果因其形态与象征意义，长期作为文化中反复出现的意象。英语谚语 “you are the apple of my eye” 将其与亲密关系相连，暗示珍视与情感投射。
在冰箱角落里，看见逐渐发黄、干瘪的苹果时，我已记不起它被遗忘的起点。本项目借由苹果的自然变化（新鲜、氧化、腐烂），映照亲密关系从珍视到消逝的过程。
项目采用胶片拍摄，显影的等待与偶然性回应了情感的沉默与不可控。苹果的衰变不仅暗示时间的不可逆性，也揭示关系的脆弱与易逝。正如 17 世纪荷兰静物画以腐烂的水果提醒人们生命的短暂与虚空的永恒，我以苹果的氧化，将个体经验转化为关于亲密与遗忘的视觉隐喻。
Having noticed a forgotten apple yellowing and withering in the back of a refrigerator, I could no longer recall when it had been left aside. This project traces the apple’s natural transformation—from freshness through oxidation to decay—as a metaphor for the arc of intimacy: from cherished connection to gradual dissolution.
Shot on film, the delays and unpredictability inherent to the development process echo the silence and lack of control often felt in relationships. The decay of the fruit speaks not only to the irreversibility of time but also to the fragility and transience of human bonds. Much like 17th-century Dutch still lifes, which used decaying fruit to evoke themes of vanity and life’s brevity, this series uses the apple’s organic transformation to translate personal experience into a visual metaphor of intimacy and forgetting.
苹果因其形态与象征意义，长期作为文化中反复出现的意象。英语谚语 “you are the apple of my eye” 将其与亲密关系相连，暗示珍视与情感投射。
在冰箱角落里，看见逐渐发黄、干瘪的苹果时，我已记不起它被遗忘的起点。本项目借由苹果的自然变化（新鲜、氧化、腐烂），映照亲密关系从珍视到消逝的过程。
项目采用胶片拍摄，显影的等待与偶然性回应了情感的沉默与不可控。苹果的衰变不仅暗示时间的不可逆性，也揭示关系的脆弱与易逝。正如 17 世纪荷兰静物画以腐烂的水果提醒人们生命的短暂与虚空的永恒，我以苹果的氧化，将个体经验转化为关于亲密与遗忘的视觉隐喻。