Initiated in 2021, this project began as a multimedia writing practice, originating from a female-centered narrative set in China’s Pearl River Delta.

The work revolves around a fictional woman. As a continuously migrating laborer, she moves between short-term jobs across the Pearl River Delta. As the narrative unfolds, she encounters a wide range of beings—model organisms, plants, stones, clouds, and deities—and eventually comes to provide labor for these living and non-living entities alike. Viewers are invited to follow her migratory path and, through her perspective, re-examine the sea and the landscapes that surround it. When she finally reaches the ocean, she discovers that the omnipresent sea of her memory has long been disturbed by human intervention, no longer an untouchable or distant boundary.

Through a form of speculative worldbuilding, the project weaves together folk customs, myths, beliefs, news events, and geographical elements from the Pearl River Delta to reflect on migration and labor under conditions of globalization. By constructing new fictional forces, the artist seeks to approach realities that resist clear articulation. “Flow” and “migration” form the conceptual core of the work: in the aftermath of a pandemic that has shattered the illusions of globalization, this project proposes a moment to reconsider the entangled relationships between the self, others, heterogeneous entities, and the world we inhabit.