They are There, Shining!

Single-channel video
2017

This was in April 2016, the number of fireflies in Haulien has increased significantly, they were full of the forest quickly in the dark. Fireflies are caught by video into exhibition space, so they occur a qualitative change, become light spots. Audience only can use eyes to see the light spots, cannot use hand to catch.

In the work, the video is reconstructed, these light spots, tree shadows and sounds are formed a new harmony that between reality and virtual. The curve of the audience’s senses is intensified in the darkness. Light spots just are there, shining, they don’t have to convey any ideas, nor do make audience start thinking, they just open the viewer’s perception to sense. Light spots as the elf-like are beating in the dark. In the slightest sound, dark flat depth of field gradually spreads the expansion and then slowly fades. Such as the Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, audience vaguely doubts whether these spots are living organisms or computer graphics.