Wang Yin: I was shocked by what I just saw. This kind of form is rarely
seen at photography exhibitions. How did you decide to spend so much time and energy on this? Was this premeditated?

　　Miao Xiaochun: You could say that I’ve been planning it for a long time. Actually my previous works took a long time to create as well, like my series on ancient Chinese scholars, which took a total of about five years. A lot of thought went into this current piece. There were several parts to the effort. First I have to take the two-dimensional image and turn it into a three dimensional one; a two dimensional picture can only be seen from the front, not from the back. Now that I’ve made it three-dimensional, you can see it from the front, the back, the side, the top and the bottom. Lastly there is the selection of the angle. In earlier photography you had to select your angle in the real setting, like with the scene we are in now, you’d have to choose an angle to take a picture. You like this angle but not that one, but in my new work I find the angle in a virtual space.

　　WY: But there are people who would say that this has no relation to photography, or that this is a new method of photography.

　　MXC: I think that an important part of photography is choosing the viewpoint. In this respect, it is related to photography. On the other hand, photography is always a documentation of the real world. From this perspective, it has nothing to do with photography. That is because it is virtual and only exists