I Dreamt of a Plastic Sea (2025)
4 Channel Video, C-Stands, Light Diffusing Paper, Audio, Digital and 16mm
images:
(1) installation view (2) still image channel-1
(3) still image channel-2 (4) still image channel-3
Through this multi-channel installation, a myth is told
about the robotic fish that live in the Lotte Tower, Seoul, South
Korea that reflects the way microplastics travel through biomatter
and inevitably, into us. I am interested here in the exploration of
technology as simulacrum, nonhuman to human relationships,
and environmental concern through fictionalizing our realities.
TEXT APPEARING BY LINE:
dad
told me
in the highest tower
where mountains once stood
he saw big fish
translucent and glowing
rainbow lights
came from inside them
their plastic skin
they made their way
to the shore
flowers of their shells
bloomed
in a battlefield of red.
I caught one
for dinner tonight
it tasted of keyboards
and chewed like wax.
It lived after eaten
I felt it swimming inside
Its lights poured from my eyes
I glitter of what remains
I dreamt of a plastic sea.