Lose yourself in the dreamy, intimate portraits of Shen Wei

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(CNN)Shen Wei’s photographs aren’t ordinary portraits — they’re dreams.

In one entrancing image after another, the Shanghai-born, New York-based artist appears unclothed, delicately pressed against an ethereal world. Lotus ponds, dusty roads, unmade sheets become a stage for Shen’s muscled, arcing body.

From those fallen blossoms sprang the inspiration for the new project — a search for a melancholy present in nature itself.

It’s a change for the artist, who feels he’s graduated from his more inwardly-focused works. “I understand myself much better than 10 years ago. I was very happy about that exploration, so I want to move on to see what else I can do and explore as an artist.”

“This will be the most conceptually abstract series I’ve done; it’s just about a mood and a sentiment. I’m interested in how a liberation from self-discovery can help me see other things.”

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