2025. May
Barnard Movement Lab, NY
Collaboratin with Yanqi Chen
There are moments when we slip unconsciously into the state of waiting. The present dissolves silently as our gaze stretches hungrily toward that distant nebula where the future resides—its hands cradling wonders, hope, secrets, and traps. Yet while we stand frozen like stone in this state of anticipation, inert and inaction, subtle transformations accumulate with each passing second. Water droplets sculpting ancient stone over millennia, buildings sprouting skyward like post-rain fungi, colonies of ants constructing grand castles in forgotten corners of the park.
These transformations unfold in their own sacred tempo, a slow-motion dance of becoming we rarely witness. While we fix our attention on final destinations and anticipated moments of arrival, and try every way to numb through, distract from the tedious process of waiting, we lose sight of the quiet beauty found within transformation itself, the poetry written in motion. Perhaps what we call waiting is actually life happening in its most honest form—not a space between events, but the silent conversation between time and matter, writing stories too subtle for impatient eyes.
Through interactive animation and sound, the installation recreates and exaggerates these transformatio
ns within waiting, through presenting and interweaving moments of imagination, stillness, and imperceptible change.