<The Confession Washstand>
Sculpture, September 2022
After the creation of Reverie, I developed the sculpture installation "The Confession Washstand" as an approach to imagine and finalize the psychological process: the confession within the psychological mechanics of the self-defeating personality. Confession, in many religions, is the acknowledgment of one's sins (sinfulness) or wrongs. Thus, I want to finalize the routine of self-defeating personality disorder by setting up a place for the confession ritual, which is inspired by the confession booth and holy water sink in the Christian church.
Kneeling in front of the confession screen made with a mirror behind the cloverleaf sheets, the confessor can wash out the despair and the sins by handwashing while gazing at their shadows to ask for forgiveness from themselves.
size: 137cm x 123cm x 152cm Medium: silk, soap, pinewood, synthetic hair, wax, metal, plastic, foam, glass beads
<The Model of Happiness>
Sculpture, November 2022
Inspired by the Aristotelian conception of Happiness and the Modern conception of happiness, this project explores the forms of happiness with its environment in modern human society. Combined with my childhood experience, when I was served with lots of industrial health supplements and tonics by my parents, I aim to present the extraneous demands and desires created artificially by human society and the modern model of happiness in child-like visual language.
On the big cream butter cake floating over the sea waves, the giant water beads, plastic goldfish, and metal plants strive to reach their demands of water in comparison to the endless sea underneath the cake.
Size: 99cm x :93cm x 55cm Medium: bed strings, foam, cable, glass, plastic grass, metallic foil, and water beads.
<Hell of Soap>
Sculpture, October 2019
This is an experimentation of conveying stories in simple geometric forms constituted by removable components. I molded soap into a pentagonal prism shape and divided it into four pieces as the container of the Barbie doll's body parts. Then I layered bendable metal strips to the second container outside the soap, attached with two more parted legs on each side. Additionally, there are multiple pieces of plastic jellyfish toys immersed in the soap.
The sculpture presents a story about the dissected Barbie captivated by solid material as if time stops. Her body and mind only come together by the imprisoning of the outside world, which brings up the question of whether self-consciousness as a being in time manifests as a permanent torment until the separation of the consciousness and human's embodiment, or death.
Size: 35cm x 18cm x 7cm Medium: Soap, plastic, iron wires, Barbie doll