街道复健

这组照片拍摄于上一组之后的第二天。我去了伊萨卡 downtown 的 Alley Cat Cafe，在那里坐了几个小时，做了一些科研也处理了一点混音。离开咖啡馆后我在附近走了走，又在回家的路上继续拍了几张。

那段时间我已经有一阵子没有真正出门，也很少和人交流。坐在咖啡馆里时，连向店员询问一件很小的事情都让我犹豫很久，后来只是为了避开一次简单的开口，我直接去了另一家店（自闭症又来了😭

所以这些照片不只是 downtown 的街道、窗户、树影和回家路上的光。它们更像是一次缓慢的恢复，比如练习坐在人群里，练习说话，练习重新把自己放回一个有声音、有店员、有陌生人经过的下午。

This series was made the day after the previous one. I went to Alley Cat Cafe in downtown Ithaca, spent several hours there working on research and mixing music, then walked around the neighborhood and continued taking photographs on my way home.

At that time, I had spent a long stretch mostly indoors, with very little contact with other people. Even asking the staff a small, ordinary question felt unexpectedly difficult; I found myself avoiding a simple sentence and going somewhere else instead. The slight hesitation, awkwardness, and stuttering made me notice a thin distance between myself and the outside world.

These images are therefore not only about downtown streets, windows, trees, and the light on my way home. They are about a slow return: practicing sitting among people, practicing speech, and learning to place myself again inside an afternoon filled with voices, strangers, and movement.