Birthdays represent the celebration of life, bringing hope and future; memorial photos represent the commemoration of death, invoking longing and past.
These two opposing elements appeared in a single photograph, where Gao Ming was making a wish in front of a birthday cake, with his parents standing behind him. In the black-and-white scene, death was blessing new life.
Gao Ming clutched the memorial photo tightly, intending to read the text behind the picture again, but suddenly sensed something and quickly hid in a corner, glancing toward a certain tunnel.
From that tunnel, the version of Gao Ming who walked out was already dead, with one eye and a severed arm, pointing in a particular direction, though his parents did not know.
The tunnel was filled with mud and thorns, piled with fallen rocks and dead wood, as a middle-aged couple, worried and anxious, emerged from the tunnel and entered a blood-red tunnel.
