This Is Water
Installation
2017
Buddhist literature tells us that we are conditioned to not see the impermanence of life, which is what I want to raise awareness of in this project. We do not see things as they are because our minds are like bowls of water that are ruffled by the wind, which make it impossible for us to see clear reflections.
In this project, we project the video of water onto a pool of water, which refracts the video onto the wall and amplifies the ripples. We made an on-and-off device so that a fan can be turned on and off every 30 seconds. The refracted water thus shows the ruffling of the wind and how it vanish almost as soon as it appears.
