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Since 2020, my emotions have become extremely sensitive because of the change in my lifestyle(covid19), but most of my feeling ，is exhaustion. This feeling of exhaustion seems to be innate. It seems that everything around me is no charming as usual. What I see is more of an extension of pragmatism. However, I chose to numb myself. I hope to use real things to create a false numbness to make myself feel happy. Even though many things have been distorted, the emotional feedback is still positive. The isolation at home made me more obsessed with sleep. Compared with the boring reality, the ghostly scenes I had seen in my dreams attracted me. This gap prompted me to desperately search for a dreamy, flattering, and false beauty. Maybe in a sense, all my emotions are stretched out in the dream. The sweet pond is a scene in my dream, a colorful lake, it flashes all night, this beautiful fairyland may be able to comfort every lost soul.

Du Huaiyi was born in 1993 and currently works and lives in Beijing and Shanghai. He graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 2016 with a bachelor's degree in arts.
He is good at using photography as a medium to extract the continuation of emotions in real life, and express and retain this emotion in other forms. He has also worked as a photographer and director of several independent films and short films, telling film stories in a unique visual language.