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My body is warming up, please wait for a while
Yingtong Zhou
This project originated from my experiences using dating apps over the past year, initially serving as a documentation of my inner struggles as the “other” in romantic encounters: being romanticized, alienated, objectified, and subjected to the gaze. At the same time, these encounters became a space for reciprocal investigation and self-examination, raising questions around reflexivity, desire, and the ways in which we perceive and construct one another. The work first took the form of fragmented, private writing, unbound by genre and moving between essay, poetry, and prose. Writing has become a scale and vessel for emotion, carrying experiences that are fragmented, intimate, and difficult to contain within a fixed narrative.

