Perhaps in the middle of somewhere, there are always some people who still live a routined life without changes. Accompanied by the grassy land and the crisp air; they get to live in their very own cycles, repeatedly and endlessly experiencing the seasonal changes and the dazzling wilderness.
Concrete jungle and the wilderness are two things often considered irrelevant. If you take a closer look of these two, you will find out that the cities have always been connected to the wilds by land and time. A well-developed metropolis may have been just a desert a few hundred, or thousand years ago. A thriving ancient city may only have its ruins today. It is time which transforms these deserts into villages, towns and cities, but it is also time which had reversed this process, and made thousands of capitals disappear, and turn them into uninhabited wastelands.
Do you really think that everything here can last forever?
Under the influence of modern civilization, most of the early nomadic tribes have been migrating into the cities, and a lot of their traditional customs are fading away. On the contrary, people who live in the city are longing for an escape to the wilderness, pursuing a lifestyle which is simple, focused, but also slowly elapsing.
In these frames, you can not only see the peace and magic from the wilderness, but also a collision and fusion of our fragmented intentions, it is a trace of all of our imaginations of the wild.
Transitioning is a vital part of the nomadic culture. They drive the herds along with all the production and living supplies- so yurt of the nomads is the main setting of this shoot. We hand-dyed a number of canvas fabrics, adding randomly smeared marks on the cloth to achieve a sense of vibrancy with vulnerable and worn-out feelings to it, just like the actual yurts that the nomads use in their daily lives.
Photographer: Miduo Mei
Wardrobe Stylist/Art Director: He Qiuyi
Assistant: Linda Gao
Assistant: TK
Hair & Makeup: Yu Jiang
Model: Lei Han & Ziyue Tang
