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This artist book, co-created by Zhao Ruotong and Zhao Tingyan,
explores the connection and transformation between travel and
relationships. It contains two diaries with blank spaces, mapping two
journeys with coordinates and image fragments.
In summer 2023, each creator, driven by an inner impulse, embarked on
separate solo travels, amid vast, aimless wandering, they encountered
fellow travelers, forming fleeting friendships and romances.
The book can be opened from either the left or right. As readers turn the
pages, they witness this long journey as a practice in farewells. Its
delicate cover, once torn, cannot be restored, symbolizing the authors’
unconscious drive to use travel as a way to clarify their relationships.

As the coordinates in the book gradually blur, one author moves
towards the end of a relationship, while the other, through clearer
coordinates, recalls her longing for someone.
Presented in the form of diaries based on the authors‘ personal
experiences, this book invites readers to reflect on relationships, travel,
and self. Through shared experiences in the diaries, it reveals that
travel remains an enduring path to self-exploration and facing
relationships.