YuanyeContents

PREPREFACEP.01

PREFACE · Volume Three · One-Way Roads

Walk the roadinto a slim volume

This volume holds four one-way roads: a ridge in fog, a river still crossed by ferry, a grassy cape in the wind, and a village under snow. The pictures are laid out page by page, with fewer words than photographs and more white space than words. I was not thinking of a book while walking; once home, I only wanted the pages to turn more slowly.

Open the journeysSee the plates first

2026 · Spring to WinterHighlands to snow village · four one-way roadsVOL.03 · YUANYE

JOURNEYSP.02

Four one-way roads

One ridge, one ferry, one cape, one village. Each chapter opens on its own page, and the page numbers run straight through.

Chapter 1C.01MistMIST RIDGEMarch 17East slope of Cascade Ridge · 2,400 mOvernight the fog rose from the valley floor, until the ridge was nothing but layers of ink, each paler than the last.Open this chapter

Chapter 2C.02FordSTILL CROSSINGMay 2Whitewater Ferry · Lower ColumbiaSix sailings a day, and fewer people cross the river than birds on the reeds.Open this chapter

Chapter 3C.03CapeWINDWARD CAPESeptember 9Beacon Cape · Pacific CoastThe grass leans one way, the waves break on one reef — a cape is the land's last hesitation.Open this chapter

Chapter 4C.04SnowNORTH HOLLOWDecember 20Cedar Hollow · North ValleySnow pressed every roof to the same white; smoke strung the houses into a single line.Open this chapter

PAIRED PLATESP.03

One landscape, one portrait

The wide frame tells the story; the tall one keeps the details. The two pictures lean against each other, and the paper-white between them is part of the photograph too.

PL.01Chapter 1 · Mist

PL.01 — The fog folded the ridge into pages, each one paler than the last.

PL.02Chapter 2 · Ford

PL.02 — The ferry count, the sailing times, and the way the reeds lean are all in the notes.

PL.03Chapter 3 · Cape

PL.03 — The wide frame goes to the sea; the tall one, to the grass path that leads to it.

PL.04Chapter 4 · Snow

PL.04 — The year has come to its end; the pages can close.

NOTESP.04

About this volume

Fifty-six pages and twenty-one photographs, all taken on four solo walks in 2026. There are no itineraries in this volume, no pins on a map, no places you simply must go — it just binds the order of four walks into paper you can turn back through.

Format 185 × 250 mmCream writing stockExposed-spine bindingEdition of 300

Read the colophon

Yuanye

YUANYE JOURNAL · Volume Three, One-Way Roads · A fictional publication, not for sale

P.01–P.48 · YUANYE JOURNAL