I’m from Taiwan but I did not grow up there. I lived in Tianjin for 9 years, then Shenzhen for half a year, finally in Yantai for 8 years. Then I came here. Yantai is not an exciting city at all. It doesn’t even look attractive, especially at first sight. But I’ve grown attach, the most, to it. And just like you I did not realize how much I liked it until recently! As you probably know Yantai is a city by the sea. You can definitely find solitude there, and it’s absolutely breathtaking when you find peace there. To answer your question, I think I should explain what “world” means to me. It does not mean the Earth to me, it simply means the network formed by the people around me, the places I’ve been to and the things that happened to me. When I go to specific place, for example the beach in Yantai, I’m able to remember so many things that took place there. So I remember the world, or the places I’ve been to as drawers, and when I open them up I’ll find all these nostalgic little pieces of memory.

The mask is a temple from place I just went to with my friends from elementary school over the summer vacation. (Yunnan Province, China) It was the first time for me to travel so far away from home without my family but with my friends instead. It was a memory and experience that can never be replaced. But I realized I can easily forget about so many things once I leave there. I know if I go back there again I’ll be able to remember them. Same for all the places that I’ve  been to. So I made my mask more like a recreation of the place rather than a face to show how important locations and places are to my memory.