The black-and-white photographs were taken during research travel in China in preparation for the exhibition project How to Talk with Birds, Trees, Fish, Shells, Snakes, Bulls and Lions at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2018). They were never exhibited and show a moment of a day in a village near Guangzhou during the New Year celebrations of 2018. In comparison to Guangzhou, where the use of fireworks is forbidden, the ambiance in the village is extremely explosive and the streets smoke. Living in Berlin one could have some similar feelings when approaching the New Year. But one particular emotion caught my attention: my eyes or my ears at this time. How to show the visible or the invisible fear? Or an instant of which you don’t know if it is about fear, but danger is palpable. Behind the field of vision an emotion sustains our existence. (Artist Statement)