Envision is a multimedia work — comprising a floor installation of videos, lights, and sound — that interweaves memories and imaginations of urbanization and the development process along waterbodies.
Appearing on the ground in the middle of the space, Phantasm projects an animating video from above onto a pile of broken mirrors laying on the sand, reflecting and dispersing light patches across the walls and ceiling of the room. The continuous yet slow change in the projection’s color, shape, form, and texture creates a galaxy visualization.
Reminiscence recollects landscape footage, turning it into a short story. The video constantly shifts, resizes, and saturates between images, from place to place, from the ocean to the cities. Also projected from the ceiling, the work allows the audience to walk through and on.
Future Boxes is a lightbox installation that collages images of old and new buildings and architectural advertisements around the city, envisioning a night cityscape.
Some images in this work seem unalterable and uncontrollable, whereas some are slowly repetitive in their movements without noticing. This is not different to the current state of Cambodia’s urban development along the waterway landscapes.