The Most Beautiful Red

During an outing in 2016, I rode a bicycle through the countryside northwest of Chengdu. Passing a small shop at one point, I found there was a musical score written on the outside of the door with the title "The Most Beautiful Red." The shop owner said that this place was called Huahong Village, and the score was the village song. The owner gave me a sample of the song that was playable on my phone. The song showed me a romantic vision of the rapid development of the countryside. Just then, the sound of excavators came from a nearby construction site. One was a vision full of the ambition of development, and the other was a reality that could be seen and heard. A true hallucination! In reality, villages across China are transforming into something else through the forces of urbanization. These scenes, particularly near the edges of cities, attract me constantly. I began to pay attention to the reality of the countryside northwest of Chengdu, but I also unconsciously used images to capture a vision similar to the song, "The Most Beautiful Red."