Erecting A House On The Edge of The Cliff
2025
Chinese Cedar, UK Pine, Wood Varnish
Dimension: 100 x 120 x 140cm
2025
Chinese Cedar, UK Pine, Wood Varnish
Dimension: 100 x 120 x 140cm
- Erecting A House On The Edge of The Cliff
- Juxtaposes the notion of liminal space with architectural heritage,
- captivates the nuanced ambivalence to the desire of being，
- depicting not a resolved architectural form nor the
- one left behind the demolition but somewhere in between,
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obliquely profiles an unsettled psychology both inspired the work and throughout its making.
- While re-taking stock of suppressive hierarchy that has been
- imbued my childhood within the household,
- architectural memory is seasoned with bitterness and warped drastically.
- Wooden slots of Erecting A House On The Edge of The Cliff were chiselled with the greatest precision,
- while drifting in an ambiguous time, no begining no end, like a permanent interlude.
Ruptured past has been cut off from its flow to the present.
- What remain is absence: A loss of memory, A loss of inheritance, A loss of being.
that was used in my great-grandparents’ residence.
An obliterated, neglected residence as the national-wide demolition hits.
The presence of pillar and beams constructs the skeleton of the timber-frame building and
in this work intends to draw forth the reverie to a larger picture of the space.
The presence of absence like an unfinished jigsaw interrogates the missing pieces
Absence is tangibly captured through projecting the loss onto the
present encounter and seeks resemblance to make up their inevitable disappearance.
To feel the ethos of the ruin, laying down one’s body within the ruin,
their limbo and torso morph into the beam, the pillar,
eventually become part of the ruin.