Quiet witnesses to time時間的靜默見證

These two photographs connect Sheffield with Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love through two objects that silently witness time: a weathered wall and a station clock.

In the film, a similar wall and window frame many encounters between the two central characters. Appearing three times, the wall holds conversations that must remain hidden. To me, it feels like a secret refuge—a place that stays still while time moves forward, people change, and possibilities disappear. The wall at Portland Works carries the same sense of endurance. Its worn surface seems to remember lives and stories that can no longer be fully recovered.

The office clock appears five times throughout the film, turning private hesitation into something measured by public time. Its final appearance accompanies the question, “If I had one more ticket, would you go with me?” In my photograph, the clock above Platform 1 at Sheffield railway station places this unspoken possibility within a setting of waiting and departure. Every train offers a route elsewhere, but not everyone leaves together.

These photographs invite the audience to consider how ordinary places can preserve intimate feelings: time moves on, yet walls and clocks remain as quiet witnesses to secrets, waiting and regret.