250 years ago, Europeans were enthusiastic about the myth of oriental tenderness, and those imaginary Japanese aesthetics were romantically pieced together, providing new inspiration for art and design and having a profound impact on the birth of modernism.

What does the exotic mean for a multicultural metropolis in this day and age? Is the globalization of culture progressing or regressing in the post-pandemic era? Does cultural integration really exist? What and who defines native and alien characteristics? A travel topic or a series of vlogs can piece together a "complete impression" of a city, and information dissemination is manipulated and used by the government, the real estate industry and the public collude, so that fragmented cultural symbols become a media business. But deliberately created utopian neighborhoods do not seem to help people increase understanding and consensus, misunderstandings and prejudices are everywhere, and incoherent cultural experiences are difficult to unify into a whole memory. Eating the same McDonald's burger, we drifted away in a rather stealthy way.

In this project I will curate still pictures in print to reflect how cultural disorientation forms and how the feature of a city become vague by mixing and confusing.