In the summer of 2020, I woke up every morning to see pictures of light and shadow on my bedroom wall - as I live in an old house, the window panes are not very flat, so the natural light refracts through the glass to create abstract patterns on the wall. As the wind blows trees outside the window, the light and shadows dance with the speed of the wind. I get up, tidy my hair with my fingers or scratch an itch while the sound of cars whizzing by is heard from time to time.

This is a process I experience time.

I faithfully record this acoustic also the visual process.
Based on the existing video and sound footage, I simply edited or combined them, and a five-minute-long video work Ouroboros was born.

This work was first exhibited as a single-channel video in 2021.

In 2022 I was invited by +BASEMENT Gallery to exhibit it. By this time, a year and a half had passed since the work took shape, and my understanding of time was different due to Bergson's influence. For Bergson, the concept of ‚pure duration' as opposed to scientific or mechanical time: time is not understood through the external objective marker of a clock but is experienced through the internal subjective consciousness of existence or ‚duration'.

In recognition of this theory, I have attempted to build on the original video work to embody ‚subjective consciousness‘ of the individual time experience so that the work eventually takes the form of interactive installation. 

When one or more people enter the exhibition room, through the sensor's detection, their physical actions will trigger the playing of sound or video. Otherwise, the video and sound will not play automatically. Firstly audience could see one video start. Later, here comes the sound, then the second video of the identical image but at a slightly different speed plays. The interplay between changing light images, the appearance of sounds at intervals, the occasional blank screen, and the silence altogether create a surreal atmosphere.

For me, this process places the individual, time, and space in an interplay relationship.