Watching the Boundary
2025
Maple, Mirror, Paper, 18.5 x 11.5 x 11 inch

We sleep every day. The dreams we occasionally experience are difficult to tell whether they are from our memories or imagination. Confusion from dormant memories affects us even when we are awake. Phenomena that are presented as déjà vu or a fleeting memory made me doubt one’s current experience. 

Watching the boundary explores the line between reality and ideal and captures moments that exist on the boundary. The images shown in the work reproduce moments in between the reality and ideal, also allow viewers to see the present reflected in mirrors. These scenes stand out when the central images are rotated by the viewers. Simultaneously, the reflected background images of reality prompt the viewers to consider the boundary between reality and ideal.

As reality and ideal overlap, blurring their boundaries, the work asks us: “Is what we are looking at really real?” Through this, viewers are prompted to question themselves whether the reality they see and believe is true, or is a constructed reality based on their own experiences and beliefs.