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Sunlight marks the kiss of the dragonfly for giving life back to the people who lose their life during the epidemic

2020

KABK

Installation, Wood, Sunlight, Ruler, Iron wire 


Sunlight marks the kiss of the dragonfly for giving life back to the people who lose their life during the epidemic.

There is a ruler in the corner of the studio. I want to know whether the time scale could measure the thickness of life? This is an unanswered question. What I have observed is that every day the sunlight is cast into the corners of the studio with different obliquity, forming a  strong angle contrast with the shadow of the floor.

At 9 a.m., the light and shadow on the wall start to move silently, it moves 60 cm per hour, and at 11:30, the sunlight slowly tightens itself, leaving only a thin slit until it completely disappears. Before that, all the tiny things protrude their heads, waiting for the moment when the sunshine lights them up, the only big moment for the sunshine to shines them.

When I "finished" this work, I still let it stay in the space where it was born for a while without moving it, just looking at it quietly, like observing things in nature. Wait for what will happen to it, or what will happen to me. We are referring to each other and looking at each other as a mirror reflection, so as to get the chance to re-know each other again.

In the end, I ask myself countless times, what art can do during the coronavirus crisis, The answer I get from this work is that art can help people to remember disasters, and remember the people in disasters.

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