My Conversation with Gong-gong (myself)
My Conversation with Gong-gong (myself) explores the re-creation of bonds with dead people over found imagery. The work contains multiple layers of imagery, which speaks to the changing and susceptible nature of memory. What one remembers is often heavily influenced by time and emotion, and memory itself is intrinsically a subjective experience.
Through interacting with images from my family album, I become the agent of a (new) memory that is situated in a place that is neither the past nor the present, but somewhere between the familiar and the unknown. Through this work, I hope to create a space that is situated between the real and the unreal, the known and the uncertain, and the material and the immaterial, where viewers can immerse into their own consciousness and reflect on what it means to be alive, what it means to be dead, and other open and unanswerable questions.
