Through Beijing's Bus Windows: Glimpses of Daily Life & COVID-Era Memories | June 2022

Описание: Filmed on June 12,2022, from a bus traveling along a route north of the North Fourth Ring Road, roughly between Qinghua East Road and Datun Road.
The bus window once again frames the city,but this time, the gaze falls upon a most familiar Beijing. An intriguing realization surfaces: when you leave a city and return, the once-ordinary daily life suddenly becomes worthy of recording. After months of wandering in Shenzhen and Guangzhou, the sights once taken for granted in Beijing—the broad avenues, the specific silhouettes of buildings, the rhythm of life on the streets—all acquire a new “photogenic” quality.
And inevitably,the lens also captures the urban scenery unique to that era: the queues for nucleic acid testing. It was once deeply embedded in everyone's daily life, becoming a collective “memory of an epoch.” As the bus moves steadily forward, it passes this time-stamped scene as well as the city's own, more constant pulse.
Where do we begin to know a city?This journey offers a perspective: sometimes, we need a brief “departure” to gain the sense of estrangement and freshness needed for “re-looking.” It is this contrast that allows us to see the textures and expressions truly ingrained in a city's fabric.

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拍摄于2022年6月12日，一辆沿着北四环以北、清华东路至大屯路一线行驶的公交车上。
车窗再次成为观察城市的画框，但这一次，目光落在了最熟悉的北京。一个有趣的发现是：当你离开一座城市再回来，熟悉的日常会突然变得值得记录。在深圳、广州漫游数月后，北京那些曾经习以为常的景象——宽阔的道路、特定的楼宇轮廓、街边的生活节奏——都获得了新的“可拍摄性”。
当然，镜头也无法避开那个年代独有的城市风景：排队进行核酸检测的队伍。它曾深深嵌入每个人的日常，成为一段集体的“年代记忆”。公交车缓缓前行，掠过这一极具时间戳记的场景，也掠过城市自身的、更恒常的呼吸。
我们从何处开始了解一座城？这次旅程提供了一个视角：有时，我们需要一次短暂的“离开”，才能获得一种“再凝视”的陌生感与新鲜感。正是这种对比，让我们看清一座城市真正深入肌理的纹理与表情。

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