LIU XIANGLiu Xiang Photography

Project / Spatial Narrative

Abandoned Realm

Abandoned Realm uses wasteland, empty rooms, woods, night roads and firelight to observe how land and space reveal their own time after human order withdraws. The point is not to prove desolation, but to let traces that have been used, placed and covered by time surface on their own.

57-work multi-image version27-image immersive selectionSpatial Narrative
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Last updated: June 17, 2026

Representative image for Abandoned Realm
Firelight in the night works like distant punctuation, illuminating land after withdrawal.

Project Overview

I try to recognize traces of the world's presence in places shaped, occupied and abandoned by people, then exposed again to nature. Earth mounds, ruins, wires, weeds, water, old rooms, firelight and night roads are no longer only concrete scenes here; they feel like low voices left by time.

Abandonment is not merely the disuse of physical space, but a silent condition left after people, land, order and memory begin to fall away from one another.

Project Type
Spatial Narrative / Documentary Observation
Number of Works
57-work multi-image version; 27-image immersive selection
Core Thread
Wasteland, old rooms, woods, mist, night roads and firelight
Viewing Entry
The complete sequence is available in the multi-image version; the immersive page keeps a 27-image selected line.
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Representative Images

These images are selected according to the rhythm of the complete work: ground appears first, followed by old rooms and objects left behind, while woods, water, mist and night fire gradually move the viewing experience deeper.

Abandoned Realm image plate 1
The rewritten ground still keeps the shapes left by human presence.
Abandoned Realm image plate 2
Old objects do not explain the past; they simply remain where they are.
Abandoned Realm image plate 3
Nature is not reclaiming this place; it is simply continuing to grow.
Abandoned Realm image plate 4
Mist folds away the distance, leaving only the weight of the space itself.
Abandoned Realm image plate 5
A car window on a night road divides the world into inside and outside.
Abandoned Realm image plate 6
The firelight is not a climax, but something still happening inside the quiet.

Sequence

  • The ground first shows the state left after being shaped, occupied and abandoned.
  • Old rooms and remaining objects keep evidence of lived life in place.
  • Woods, mist, night roads and firelight move the viewing from concrete scenes toward a slower sense of time.
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  • Complete Viewing: The multi-image version presents the complete 57-photograph sequence, while the immersive project page keeps a selected 27-image viewing line.
  • Project Overview: The project overview keeps a unified entry point for Abandoned Realm.
  • Contact / Collaboration: Course, exhibition, publishing and collaboration inquiries can start from the contact page.