“One significant insight I learned from ancient Chinese landscape painting is to create a landscape for oneself. Instead of composing a world to impress others, I try to depict what my inner self had observed so I could live in it while creating the scenery,” says Yongliang.

Yongliang creates massive, mountainous cityscapes composed of hundreds of photo and video segments. He shoots the images of real world places himself, mostly in his hometown of Shanghai and its surrounding areas.

The fore, middle, and backgrounds warp in scale between images of skylines, intersections, building facades and open landscape. Each is stitched together into an animated whole, a meditatively coruscating urban world that any viewer could easily get lost in.