Bloom of a Vanishing Dream

How do we face the presence of absence?
What does it mean to sense life within death?

Bloom of a Vanishing Dream reveals moments of disappearance as appearance through the
accumulation of transient states. Here, disappearance is not treated as absence, but as a porous
space in which forms shift between appearing and dissolving. Within the installation, traces of
disappearance exist within stillness, as if continuing to breathe within emptiness. This stillness is
shaped through metal structures that hold and suspend what is on the verge of disappearance,
introducing a gesture of holding within the process of vanishing.
What forms of life remain, and what do we come to perceive as aliveness?
How do we hold what is on the verge of disappearance?
The installation originates from an encounter that unsettled the fragile boundary between dying
and death. When the orchid’s flower withered, it was perceived as death, yet its return in bloom
disrupted this assumption, revealing the instability of how death is recognized. Rather than marking
a clear end, the moment of withering exposed death as something provisional, situated within an
ongoing cycle of transformation. This ambiguity is carried through the recurring use of floral forms,
which embody cycles of appearance and disappearance.
Translating this understanding into spatial form, the installation employs fragile structures created
at moments of heightened vitality. The combination of dried plants and metal sculptures create a
field of coexistence, where warmth, breath, and transformation interweave. Within this space, death
is perceived not as absence, but as a quiet persistence a state of becoming that holds space for
care and attention.

Body, Memory