I lived in a small town when I was a child. It’s called Nanxun where the whole town is built along the river sides for thousands of years. The buildings on the both banks of the river is naturally constructed by demands and time as if trees grows, which directly inspired me to document them in a typographical way in order to find some kind of essence through these photographs of buildings. I took Bernd Becher and Hilla Becher’s works as an example and photographed these buildings using a medium format digital camera, trying to record in a very detailed way. However, when the result came out, it is hard to say these photographs work as same as the Bechers’. These buildings are less machinery and less well-constructed, but more like diverse grass feeding by the river, which gave me a critical thinking on the appearance of these buildings, my context as a modernized person and what does my hometown actually mean to myself. Each building seems to have a history of its own. Each of them grows the way they want. Even the whole town should be regarded as an entire ecosystem which cannot be easily deconstructed, disassembled or classified. Thus I started to make an installation by hanging those buildings printed on transparent films and exhibited them in a dark space. Viewers are welcomed to walk into the space, using flashlight to create overlapped images by themselves, immersing in it where the body is surrounded by ever-changing moving images and finally find a path to understand the wholeness of this small town. Although the result is not accurate, stable or even scientifically organized, it makes me understand my hometown is just like the river that flow past itself.