Where To Go

Where to Go reflects on the uncertainty faced by Chinese students born in the early 1990s who studied in the United States and were forced to choose between staying and returning. Through images and handwriting calligraphy.

I keep returning to the same questions: why I came to the United States, what I surrendered in leaving one profession for another, and what kind of future awaits me. These questions do not arrive with answers. They linger — quiet, insistent, unresolved.

In this sense, I am not alone. This work is rooted in a generation of Chinese students born in the early 1990s who studied in the United States and, upon graduation, faced an urgent and often painful choice: to stay or return. Under the pressure of political conditions, limited time, and uncertain prospects, the future becomes less a destination than a state of suspension.

Where to Go is shaped by this suspended condition. It speaks to the emotional weight of standing between places, identities, and imagined lives. At its core, the work is not only about migration or decision-making, but about the human search for meaning when certainty is no longer available. Through these images, I hope to evoke a space of recognition — for those who live within this condition under the pressures of the present political climate, and for anyone who has experienced the loneliness, ambiguity, and gravity of choosing a life.