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2024
Digital Artwork, Documentation Video & Moving Image on digital screens
For βSorry for the Technical Difficultiesβ exhibition curated by
@joandkapi
This digital painting draws inspiration from a song with the same name by Magdalena Bay form their latest album Imaginary Disk. The lyric, βIf time is meant for living, whyβs it killing me?β serves as the foundation of this piece.
Lately, life has felt like a loop: a monotonous rhythm of eat, sleep, work, repeat. In this cycle, Iβve often found myself feeling less like a person and more like a machine, running on a preprogrammed script. It was during those fleeting moments between other projects that I created this piece as a way to kill time.
In this piece, time is personified as both destroyer and creator, locked in a paradoxical cycle of self-destruction and rebirth. The work seeks to capture the tension between decay and renewal, reflecting the cyclical nature of time.
Another perspective shared by Kapi highlighted the idea of condensing timeβwhether through compressing progress into a timelapse or comparing the streamlined workflow to the more laborious process of creating a Renaissance or Rococo paintingβas a form of βkillingβ the time spent in the process.
Similarly, crafting intricate details that remain unseen by the 3D camera becomes an act of time and effort being βdestroyed.β
I was really mindblown by his insights and you know what itβs so true.
Thank you
@joandkapi for inviting me to be part of this exhibitionβmy very first time participating in fact! Grateful to the amazing artists as well: Aditi Neti, Darius Ou, Chok Si Xuan, Samson, and Tisha Wong. It was such a wonderful and enriching experience π«Άπ»