Yihong (Bob) Liu arrived in the U.S. to study in 2017, while his parents emigrated from China last year leaving him emotionally torn between a sense of cultural dislocation and familial separation, a dilemma he explores through the self-portraits in Detachment, using unfamiliar New York settings, light, and space to convey feelings of displacement, numbness, and the unresolved tension of choosing between two homes.