Fu-An Chen
May Your Heart Be the Map
After my one-year journey studying photography academically, I return to being a naïve photographer mainly utilising intuition and spontaneity to make work. May Your Heart Be the Map is therefore a manifesto for my way of photographing: it has nothing to do with sophisticated concepts or painstaking research; instead, it belongs to the domain of irregular physical movement, primal animal instinct and unforeseeable chance, and is, most importantly, a means to pour out my heart and soul.
So, the images in this work might seem quite arbitrary to you and lacking in logical coherence. However, I believe one thing shows up, again and again in the photographs I have taken: me, a person who is always perplexed about his past, present and future – and, for this reason, constantly feeling insecure, anxious and hesitant. Thus, May Your Heart Be the Map not only conveys some thing that I want to tell you, hoping that you can read these images by following your inner voice, but also some thing that I should always keep in mind.