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Four Tracks

Times Museum online journal issue #2, 2021

An online commission for Times Museum Journal issue #2, Constellation of Intimacies is live in both Chinese and English.

Four groups of Chinese railroad workers are gathered from across different lands and epochs. Time and space collide. The workers wonder which group brought the mosquitoes, though they slowly realize no one is to blame; mosquitoes inhabit all the lands they arrived from. Those from the past raise their voices, while those from the present are silenced.