Gazing at you tenderly in my warm abdomen

2023
Stop-motion Video
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For me, my family's house is a dim, strange yet familiar and cozy space, resembling a uterus or some kind of transcendental place before the emergence of self-consciousness. The vast, bizarre, and unused furniture scattered around.
My mother, after retirement, has been alone with this house, wandering around the rooms and engaging in various activities.

Initially, I attempted to capture snippets of my mother's life. However, later on, I perceived a fascinating interplay between my mother's actions and the ambiance of the house, creating a remarkable intertextuality. I believe that the emotions between my image space, my family's room, and my mother'spersonal status can form a state of mutual reflection, resonance, and interconnection. Therefore, I created the stories I felt were unfolding here as a response to reality.

I feel that this room and my mother seem to have jointly constructed a universe/the womb of The Great Mother. Time extends infinitely within it, with every moment lasting forever.
Trapped in this space, I can see the exit but cannot leave, forgetting myself. The absence of sound causes time to solidify, as if the silent The Great Mother is gazing at her interior and also at me, who is not sure whether I am a part of the subject or an object within it.

I created these models and stop-motion animations by incorporating my own feelings with some of the images of The Great Mother archetype.

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