Since 2001, I have started my art practice that involves scanning of daily objects and computer-based postproduction. I find that making photographs by a scanner is so different from a camera. First of all, it requires touching of the object. When you’re putting the object on the scanner, the action of touching is involved. There’s no distance between the object and the scanner, while a camera can never touch the object or a person it is shooting. In fact, there’s a hidden lens inside the scanner, but it is very different from the lens in a camera which could be considered extension of human’s eye. That is to say, what you see with your eye is what the camera see, both are images in distance. What the camera does is to record what our eyes have seen and transform it into image. However, what a scanner can do is just on the opposite, as it sees what we cannot see with our eyes. It keeps no distance to what it captures with the lens. In addition, the image produced by the scanner is of the same proportion, and the details of the object are totally kept. This makes it something like a proof which is absolutely objective. What the scanner does is precise, absolutely objective. An image obtained through camera will finally be produced with the procedure of enlargement, from which we can never learn the original size of the object. What’s more, one character of the scanner is that its working process actually is to flatten an object plane. Very straightforward. This is something like what we can see in the Chinese rubbings. It is different from what a camera did, as we still have perspective on the photo obtained through the camera. My practice is more about the exploration of the ascetics or value about the images obtained through scanning.

（Statements by the Artist, 2011)