LONG Chinsan

On a hillside, a cluster of bronze bells meets the landscape. Their sculptural weight and the slope’s quiet lines are arranged to feel at once placed and natural—a meeting of made and found. LONG Chinsan often blended objects and scenery to compose such harmony.
    Born in Jiangsu in 1892 and moving to Taiwan in 1949, LONG became a pioneer of composite photography. He adapted ideas from the Six Principles of Chinese Painting — especially careful composition and learning through transmission — into a photographic language.
    Landscapes can record memory as much as space. Here, the bells might carry echoes of places and people, and with them a wish to return — a gentle sound of belonging traveling across distance.