Le Xi: Flowing Borders—Where Experience Meets Perception
In my life, I particularly enjoy paying attention to the subtle movements and changes between different things. This focus has led me to believe that things and relationships are not static; they are constantly changing. This dynamism offers us countless possibilities, allowing me to actively engage with these changes, redefine the meaning of things, and discover their potential value.
As I shift my attention between different points of movement, I challenge and reshape my ingrained views, looking for possible connections. These connections enable me to link seemingly independent things, creating new understandings and insights. In this process, I often discover new meanings and enhance my ability to adapt to change.
This habit of observing small changes has made me more sensitive in my daily life. For example, in my work “We Burn, We Shive,” I found fascinating ‘reflections’ in the burning flames and the trembling leaves. This piece seeks to reveal the discovery of a desire that is invisible yet genuinely exists. I focused on the trembling of the leaves and the burning of the flames, using my phone to record their movement frequencies and leveraging the computer's ability to layer their true motion boundaries. My computer screen became a window, a mirror, a telescope, and a magnifying glass, allowing me to “dig and examine” frame by frame, like an escapee searching for a way out in a narrow gap. Through this process, I “threw myself” into the trembling and burning represented by images, turning the focus on movement changes into an imaginative whole. In this journey, I not only observed the dance of the flames and the tremble of the leaves but also experienced the subtle connections between them. This allowed me to build a bridge between visual and perceptual experiences, redefining the meaning of these moments and creating a completely new experience, where the boundaries between “thinking” and “doing” continually blur.
By focusing on subtle movements and changes, I propose a dynamic worldview. “Shifting attention” is not just an exploration of the relationship between what is “seen” and what is “unseen,” but also an entry into a life where “thinking” and “doing” overlap. In the process of creating “We Burn, We Shive,” I deeply realized that the work is not just the result of creation; it is a combination of understanding, representation, perception, and experience. This process has become my way of redefining the boundaries of the real world, allowing me to find new meanings within change and continuously driving my artistic exploration and personal growth.
