Li ZiQi gives off the sense of being utterly unhurried—of having all the time in the world, or at least all the time she needs to do whatever she is doing. Her videos are small vignettes, artfully produced. The visuals tell the viewer that not only is this woman beautiful, the landscape beautiful, and the final product beautiful, but the activity itself is beautiful from start to finish. Even the gathering of the fruits or the vegetables or the mushrooms, or the peeling or the stripping or the chopping or the spinning—every single stage is beautiful when this person is doing it in this way.

And the dream is that you could do this, too. Or that people once lived this way, long ago.

And maybe some really did. And maybe some still do. I’ve encountered such people myself on occasion, who seem to have a rare calm and groundedness and grace.

I doubt it was ever all that many, but what do I know? And I don’t think Li ZiQi herself makes any claims that this represents her complete reality (you can find a lot of background information about her here). What she has said is “I am shooting [videos] about my imaginary life in the future.”

[NOTE: Please see this previous post of mine regarding my early love for Cezanne and Vermeer. It’s relevant.]

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