Lightness2022

Flowers are fragile, beautiful and light. Especially the cherry blossom. Grasping flowers with hands symbolizes a desire to grasp something beautiful, fragile but perishable in life. When the flowers fall, when the opportunity comes, some are caught and some are lost. Those caught are only temporary possessions. Trying to catch flowers, trying to catch something good but easy to lose. During the Covid pandemic, filmmaker Wei Gao started planting and gardening. Taking care of plants every day, she discovered that humans are as fragile as plants. We try to catch things in life, some succeed, some miss. “The unbearable lightness of being.”