![A black white image. An abstract architectural image overlaps with a flooded city landscape.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Zihao_-Chen_mirage_2021_-11-Zihao-Chen-804x600.jpg)
Zihao Chen, Mirage, 2021. Photo-etching, aquatint.
![This is a series of prints. It shows a yellowish red colored flooded city landscape with black abstract textures.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Zihao_-Chen_June_2021_-3-Zihao-Chen-800x600.jpg)
Zihao Chen, June 3, 2021. Photo-etching, aquatint, dry-point.
The unpredictable phenomena of nature has always intrigued me. This year I began to work with photography to examine memory, particularly my memory of natural disasters, as compared to the public memory. The subtle disconnect between the private-public interface inspires me to create prints and to experiment with image processing. Images from the public realm interfere with images of my personal experience; they are permeable, they transform each other. I want to create a palimpsest whereby the images in my artworks are containers for the overlapping of private and public memories.
![Photo - etching with brown color flooded city landscape and black abstract textures](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Zihao_-Chen_June_2021_-4-Zihao-Chen-1070x800.jpg)
Zihao Chen, June 4, 2021. Photo-etching, aquatint, dry-point.
![Photo - etching showing a black and white flooded city landscape with scarlet abstract textures](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Zihao_-Chen_June_2021_-2-Zihao-Chen-1055x800.jpg)
Zihao Chen, June 2, 2021. Photo-etching, aquatint, dry-point.
![This print belongs to the print series Fragments. The picture shows a black silhouette of abstract shape on the top of green color flooded city view with a pink sky.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Zihao_-Chen_Fragments-3_2021_-7-Zihao-Chen-788x600.jpg)
Zihao Chen, Fragments 3, 2021. Photo-etching, aquatint, dry-point.
![A black and white image. Picture is twisted and shows a flooded city landscape. Some figures are standing on the water looking at each other.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Zihao_-Chen_-Crowd-_2021_-13-Zihao-Chen-500x600.jpg)
Zihao Chen, Crowd, 2021. Photo-etching, aquatint.
![A Black and white image. It’s an abstract image but it still can recognize a group of people who are floating on the water with a board.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Zihao_-Chen_Survivors_2021_-15-Zihao-Chen-884x600.jpg)
Zihao Chen, Survivors, 2021. Aquatint, sugarlift.
![Abstract image. Big Red brushstrokes cover a light green background.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Zihao_-Chen_-Untitled_2021_-9-Zihao-Chen-449x600.jpg)
Zihao Chen, Untitled, 2021. Photo-etching, aquatint.
![An abstract image. Yellow ochre brushstrokes cover a chaotic black textures. It's about an impress of flood memory.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Zihao_-Chen_Untitled_2021_-10-Zihao-Chen-793x600.jpg)
Zihao Chen, Untitled, 2021. Photo-etching, aquatint, dry point.