week 5, message from zinc

Dear Baby Powder,

Do we truly understand our own changes?

Sometimes what appears to be change is merely a reproduction of a certain imagined version of ourselves.

We exist as vivid, dynamic symbols, constantly reshaped by external forces, only to return again to our inner selves.

At times, I feel this is our connection to nature — all the complex, unpredictable transformations are governed by invisible formulas or rules.

I hope we can all learn to coexist peacefully with change.

Best
Zinc

 
 

week 6, message from baby powder

Dear Zinc,

I cherish these transformations, like a series of embraces and farewells.
We move through them with such elasticity, yet still must hold something in balance.

Remember to take an intermission.

Baby Powder

Week 7, Message from Zinc

Dear Baby Powder,

I'm back in that first memory again.
It's a storm that never really fell.
When I look at the scar, it has already changed.
By the time it was marked in my memory, I had already become someone new.

Best
Zinc

 
 

week 8, message from baby powder

Dear Zinc,

I'm so happy for you. With every passing second, we can become someone new.

For a while, I stayed in the same space, where even the air felt frozen. 
Then suddenly, I stepped outside.
The wind brushed my skin, and in that instant, a deep longing surged through me...longing for a single, fleeting moment. 
I was startled. How vividly real this world is.

See you somewhere
Baby Powder

Wei Wei (zinc)

Wei Wei is a Chinese artist based in New York, who received his MFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design in 2025. Working primarily with sculpture and photography, he draws on the roots of traditional Chinese art to transform the tension between tradition and contemporary society into poetic visual forms. His practice investigates and redefines the meaning of cultural symbols in today’s consumer-driven world. Wei Wei is a recipient of the LensCulture Black & White Photography Award and the Critics' Choice Award, and his work has been exhibited internationally.

Wu MeiChi (baby powder)

Wu MeiChi is a photography artist whose practice intertwines color still life, stage photography, abstraction, and experiments with light and texture. Her acclaimed series XYX – A Moveable Feast (2017) and YXX – The Flares (2019) transform scenes of light and reflection into distorted geometric forms, exploring the “box” as a conceptual framework where tangibility, reflection, and the transformative power of light intersect. Expanding beyond photographic practice, Wu engages with participatory and socially oriented projects, such as King Wan Wan Shopping Mall and collage-based interventions at Tainan Fine Art Center. In these works, collage functions not merely as a compositional device but as a strategy for weaving fragments of collective life into new aesthetic and conceptual forms, resonating with emerging AI aesthetics in which data, images, and social textures are continuously recombined to generate shifting and open-ended meanings. Wu is also recognized for her innovative use of media and her meticulous manual construction of light-and-shadow scenes that transcend conventional boundaries. Through spatial manipulation, ordinary objects undergo a metamorphosis, transforming into commanding still-life compositions that embody both intimacy and cosmic scale. Her artistry reimagines relationships between humans, species, and environments, while rethinking conditions of existence and perception. 

Significant solo exhibitions include Pairs Photo (2025) at Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, with works entering the museum collection; Baby’s Baby (2024) at Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, as part of the Discovery Award nominees; Pandora’s Box at A26 Space and Vege Wonders, Beijing; Picnic (2020) at Pon Ding, Taipei; and YXX – The Flares (2019) at Each Modern, Taipei. Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions such as The Eye of Abstraction (2023) at the National Center of Photography and Images, Taipei, A Fresh Look – The Artist’s Window (2022) at ArtBank, Taichung, and IMAGRATION at Gallery Common, Tokyo.