COME + GO: NEIGHBOURS
來來去去 - 鄰居們
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installation – video projected on ceramic objects
2020
Video 2020 2:04, loop
SAFE (Hard Hat): porcelain: 7.5" x 5" x 11"
SECURE (Toilet roll): porcelain: 5" x 5.5" x 6"
SHIELD (Bagged Surgical Mask): porcelain and zip-lock bag 16" x 2" x 15"
People come and go,
things come and go,
everyday comes and goes.
Perhaps the present is the most important.
This installation piece contained a video with sound, that projected on top of 3 ceramic objects. The juxtaposition of these elements reflected my surroundings in 2020 Calgary. I enjoy the simple pleasure to watch my neighbours during my breakfast: squirrels running on the power lines, jack rabbit perching in the snow and the magpies hopping between shrubs. The video suggests a tranquility and peaceful atmosphere between human and nature, as these animals can be found easily in Alberta's residential areas, it narrated my environment at that moment better than any spoken languages. My observation and everyday life are transformed into my art. It also generated contrasts to the suffocating atmosphere from the COVID-19 pandemic while the video exhibited together with other ceramic components of COME + GO series. The background audio depicts a coffee making scene, while I was reading news and watch my neighbours from a distance. The ceramic hard hat represents the chaos happened in my hometown Hong Kong since 2019; the ceramic toilet paper roll represents the worldwide spread of COVID-19 pandemic; the ceramic surgical mask keeps in a zip-lock bag associates to both situations.