The Journal

Stories by HONG XI

Short philosophical observations from the studio — on imperfection, distance, and the beauty hidden inside the ordinary.

12 September 2024

The Things We Throw Away

A discarded thing is only a thing that has stopped being seen.

03 July 2024

A crack is not a mistake. It is the place where a story begins.

18 May 2024

Every face is made of thousands of moments. We simply forget to count them.

21 March 2024

The most beautiful things are not the things that are new. They are the things that have remained.

15 January 2024

Sometimes we need distance to understand the whole picture.