Distorted Map

Video, 2020

Part and whole.

Up and down.

Past and future.

I invite audiences to follow me to travel and get lost in prints and time through this video.

This piece comes from my thoughts and feelings while printing polymer plates on eight kinds of paper. Although they share the same image on the polymer version, they give me eight different. I find that printing is very different from printing on a computer screen when I do the printing. At first, I thought it was because the transition between media carriers was constantly changing. Later, I thought it wasn't just a matter of resolution or image size. Actual prints have a different feel to the touch of other papers, the smell of ink, the quality of paper, and more texture than the image on the screen. When I stare at these prints when my eyes are focused on different points, I seem to travel through the prints, and sometimes my mind jumps between the whole and the part. I am interacting with it. I can't think about the whole when I stare at the part. They are separate entities, sometimes intertwined, like echoes or feedback. I think it's a distorted space that I try to create in my mind.

Go down the stairs, or go up and make a circle. It's like a Möbius ring. If time is a cycle, then the last minute is the furthest future from us, and the next minute is the nearest past minute to us. The moment when the girl looked up and stared in print was frozen and reproduced, but it was no longer the second at that time. That second contains my feelings about space, temperature, touch. In the video, I created another distorted space where the whole and part can appear in the same scene, and the left and right can be the same side. The present can be the past or the future.

There is a distorted map in the video. So you may be lost, but what is certain is that this second you are feeling.