Leisure time at the plaza (2025)

Animated colour digital video with ambient sound : 3 minutes(looped)

At the time, these places and aesthetics felt ordinary—a backdrop to daily life. In hindsight, they carry a strange kind of weight: the stillness of empty streets, a bounded locale, and routine. There was a certain loneliness to it, but also comfort. Simultaneously, I'd often retreat to the family computer, where the web games it had to offer and the glow of the early interfaces became its own kind of world—vibrant, intriguing, and enclosed.

In this work, I translate memories of a local plaza into a surreal digital landscape, where suburban space and virtual space blur. Figures drift in quiet repetition, their movements echoing the rhythms of both boredom and comfort. The screen becomes both a portal and boundary—a lens through which subconscious memory lingers, altered but intact, even as the world moves on.