Since the Song Dynasty, Chinese artists have been inspired to use pingtiao (set of scrolls) to display their works. These scrolls can be used separately to showcase different calligraphy works or paintings, or they can collectively display one single work (with multiple scrolls combining to create a unified piece). This form of display is sometimes referred to as haiman, the "sea curtain" mounting. Shadow Curtains is a photographic series that follows this form of aesthetic tradition. In the Shadow Curtains series, several excerpts drawn from a single 35mm frame of film is selected and then distributed across several scrolls. In this specific piece, the imagery captured is a section of a ginkgo tree which has a long history of 1400 years, located in the Guanyin Chan Temple in Shaanxi Province in China.

自宋朝以来，中国艺术家受到启发用屏条来展示他们的作品。 多个作品组合形成一组屏条。这些屏条可以单独展示不同的书法作品或绘画，也可以集合展示同一件作品（多个屏条组合形成一件统一的作品）。这种展示形式有时被称为“海幔”。《影幔》这组摄影系列遵循这一美学传统，选取一张35毫米的照片，并将其分布到多个卷轴上。这件作品呈现的是一棵生长在中国陕西省观音寺，有着1400年历史的银杏树。