I have not met my parents in person for over two years since the pandemic forced people to accept lockdowns. Local governments limited travel between different countries and regions, so I could only see my parents’ faces and hear their voices through video. Since Covid-19, hate towards Chinese and Asian peoples increased. When my parents mentioned that the news of Asian people being attacked in Australia made them anxious, I had to lie to comfort them by saying that the discrimination and violence against Chinese and Asian were merely exaggerations of the media.
In May 2020, in the middle of the long-term lockdown in Melbourne, I took some selfies in my room, the little box. I selected four moments and edited them to be a square grid photo. Later, I duplicated the grid photo and finally put 150000 copies, which symbolised 600000 moments, in one layout. I am just a little point in the photo now. A human being is just a point in a spacious plane. One cannot figure out my appearance or how I felt in that little box just by viewing this photo. I am not more than a colour block for viewers. Do I have a voice? Do I want people to recognise who I am? Is my feeling valuable? I cannot tell. However, at least I knew that outside of my room, whether in Australia, China, or other areas, tens of thousands of people like me were there.

自从新冠疫情强行封城以来，我已经有两年多没有见到自己的父母了。各地政府纷纷实施出行限制，国家及地区之间都无法往来，因此我只能通过视频电话看到父母的面庞，通过电缆听他们的声音。新冠爆发以来，对亚洲和华人的仇视加深。父母提到澳洲出现攻击亚洲人的事件，让我充满焦虑，但为了让父母放心，我却又不得不对他们撒谎说对华人及亚洲人的歧视和暴力事件只不过是媒体夸大其词。
2020年5月，墨尔本正处于长期封城的静寂中，我在家里——“小盒子”，拍了些自拍照。我选取了四张，并编辑成四张一组的方形照片。之后，我把这一张方形组照复制，最终复制出15万张，象征着60万个时刻，排列在一起。现在，我只是照片中的一个小点。在广阔无垠的平面中，一个人只是一个点。光看照片，人们看不到我长什么样子，也无法感知我在小盒子里的感受。对于观者而言，我只不过是一颗像素。我的声音有人听到吗？我想让人们知道我是谁吗？我的感受重要吗？我不知道，但是，至少我知道，在我的小盒子外，无论是澳大利亚、中国，还是其他地区，都有成千上万的人跟我一样。