Rhapsody In the Studio (2025), Site-specific Installation; 2 days; transparent nylon thread, transparent PVC strings with UV ink; 4m x 1.2m x 1.4m; The Narrows Art Residency, Nelson, Canada
Photo Documentation
A text documentation of the phrases/sentences in the work:
Visual effect of the work under low and high ambient lightings:
More comparison photos showing the visual difference in the text strips under UV light versus no UV light:
Artist's Statement
The text written in UV ink is drawn from the thoughts I recorded in the moment as I strung these fishing lines between the studio walls. This choice ties the work closely to my time and experience in that studio: it's a physical manifestation of the ideas that occurred to me in the space, returning to it in an analogous form to become part of the space itself.
This work materializes subjective experience within an objective space as a visual phenomenon. By allowing viewers to use a UV flashlight to illuminate limited areas, they glimpse only fragments of my "thoughts" at a time, mimicking how communication gradually reveals another's inner world.
Thus, this work reveals how an individual's experience of a space is both dependent upon and distinct from that space itself, bringing subjective experience to the surface.