This series of photography works has many layers of meaning to me. At first, this series signified rebirth, then disappearance, and further down the road, limbo. In the end, however, I am unsure what this piece signifies as it holds many meanings and emotions depending on when I look at it. Therefore, the title of the whole series could be about my emotions regarding the images, in which I keep reforging the meaning of the series and eventually forgetting the original meaning. I want the piece to have the same effect on the audience in which if they ever revisit the piece they’d forge new meanings associated with this series of works. The series was heavily influenced by funerary processions, especially the ones I saw in Taiwan, in which much of the funerary procession is similar to a performative act to express someone’s mourning. The ending of the series is also a nod to the funerary procession in Taiwan in which people wear colorful clothes to send off the dead.
Struggling with self-identity I painted the the undoing and making of my reflections.
I explored memory as an experience, in which instead of just viewing it, the audience is incorporated and experience it as a part of their life. Memory is often hard to make sense of and can be altered with time. The photos and videos used in this installation are mostly my dad's photos, some in which I was incorporated and some were taken before I was born. The central project was taken by me, like an alternative self portrait.
The same work on a smaller installation:
A piece that explores the replacement of identity by something that is an imitation of the self.
photos on the right most columns are images generated using my own image on the column to the left using:
https://huggingface.co/spaces/lambdalabs/image-mixer-demo?ref=futuretools.io