For me the space between the top and the bottom means a process, a process of development and rising. Through this process, many people put there effort and even sacrificed their lives, but what they did might be erased on purpose. I spend more than ten hours on using up one brad new pencil to write down each minutes on a roll of receipt paper from 6PM to 3 AM in a hotel room. Then, after 10 hours wiring, I erased everything. I feel people are like pencils leaving not permanent marks, and hotel is a place that you spend nights and and the room will be clean up after you left.
I was mainly inspired by Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, which were student-led demonstrations in Beijing, China. During the protests, a student-led hunger strike galvanized support for the demonstrators around the country and the protests spread to some 400 cities.
When I was planing this piece, I thought this “time recording” experience can make myself have a stronger sense of time and the length of a minute than before. However, when I was recoding every minutes and looking at the number on the clock changing, these numbers started to loss their meaning. There are just number for me. I had less feeling of the time passing.
After being isolated from the outside, I also realized that so many desire actually are not from the inside, but they are putting into me from the outside.