”     ”  started as a box prototype, documented as a video in the physical computing class last year. This May, I was invited to make a large-scale installation to a group exhibition in Shanghai. I developed the small prototype into a completed kinetic system. I would call it “sound installation” somehow because sound plays an important role in the piece.

The initial idea comes from my unfortunate experience when I was in senior school. The reason for the outlook(box shape)is because it has a similar shape to the student locker in my school. It took me a long time to get rid of the shadow of the locker because something bad happened with it which was deeply affected me at that time. The intention of the paper is pretty obvious as its materiality: easy to be broke and tortured which makes me feel it is fragile like a human being. Although it is from my personal experience, I don’t want it to be “my personal” somehow. I didn’t include any specific direction in either description and project title. I intend to encourage the audience to recall their own memories, some painful and broken moments in their own lives instead of thinking like “this is the experience of the artist, having nothing to do with me”.

I was inspired by my favorite artist Zimoun, a Swiss artist, composer, and musician who’s most known for his sound sculptures, sound architectures, and installation art. I was obsessed with meditative sound and movement and got a lot of artistic senses and inspiration from it. I like to be in a daze, just listening, watching and feeling. For me, I believe art is about subtle perception. Somehow it might be a reason for loving Zimoun’s work.