Veronica persica is native to the Caucasus region, located at the border of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Carried by wind and human migration, this plant gradually spread from the Caucasus to Europe, Britain, Asia and China.
In China, it is listed as an alien invasive species. It was first discovered, documented and collected in Wuhan, Hubei in 1933. The plant once grew beside the artist’s grandmother’s former residence. Long after the house was torn down and the homestead lay in ruins, the artist found this little blue flower tied to her childhood memories still blooming in its original spot.
In this semi‑fictional film, the artist interweaves her grandmother’s story — as one of the first‑generation immigrants resettled in Qingshan, Wuhan for industrial development — with the dispersal journey of Veronica persica. Recompiling archival records of the plant from different periods and geographies, the voice‑over takes botanical morphological description as its primary narrative thread. It interlocks with close‑ups of the human body and roaming shots of passing landscapes, generating subtle divergences and correspondences between them.
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