Liminal, 2024
무경계
Blender and Premiere Pro2-minute video with sound
Installation view: 1st-Year Yale MFA Exhibition Fall 2024, Feedback Loop
Photo credit: Chen Xiangyun
2-minute video with sound
Light can heighten human senses and allow us to understand the world around us in its entirety.
The moment we enter a space, it speaks to us about our past and present selves. A seemingly innocent visual stimuli transports us back to past encounters and, through imagination, weaves patterns of association that construct meaning. Whether intentional or not, we find meaning in the way an architecture arches high above us, in the ripples of filtered light across walls, and in the darkness of shadows where imagination takes its form.
Within the interplay of light and shadow, solid and void, and presence and absence, — in-between spaces — we become truly in tune with our senses, our presence, and the present moment. In this Blender rendering, I have created five imagined spaces, each embodying contrasting traits: origin (industrial and organic), texture (smooth and rough), weight (light and heavy), direction (horizontal and vertical), and light transmission (translucent and opaque). Inspired by my studio practice, these liminal spaces evolve through motion. The discord between warm and cool lights blurs the boundaries within these imagined spaces, making them difficult to be placed in a specific setting, time, or place, and ultimately question the reality before us.