LAPIS
About
I drifted from philosophy, trying to sync my mind and heart through Art, yet I found difficulties composing rhymes.
I recently discovered that the key to making good music is to sit in the body, to watch the thoughts pass and emotions flow gently.
I like riddles because everyone has answers of their own.
See it as An invitation to Multi-Dimensions.
Fairy tales' archetypes cater to different chapters of life.
Pay attention to the little obstacles the characters encounter.
It may reveal secret healing passages to walk in the heart.
Watching the pink castle in the sky is an illusion of future happiness.
To read the reality,
jumping into the black hole of the Void helps expand the present landscape.
A new method is no method,
Habits are traps.
Mundane is only a state of the mind,
the door is open,
step outside.
I no longer try to figure out the meaning of being in the physical plane.
Leaves move gracefully in the wind, and so be it.
Statement
I have spent the past two years investigating Travel as a form of device and opposing forces' movements (Gothe's explanation on Systole and Diastole). It is through the opposite movements of life formed. To give a few examples that I've worked with across various mediums:
Action vs. Pause
Stimuli vs. Emotions
Goal vs. Process
Excitement vs. Fear
Comfort vs. Change
...
The Angel and Devil are archetypes of opposite perspectives, whether it to be external or internal.
I always imagined them to be in a quarrel, instead, they actually meant to have tea together. It is through this movement, it creates growth development, and more discovery of the Self.
Resistance comes when "I think it's better to be here..." rather than accepting being on one side or both without judgments.
I think ≠ I am
in Tarot's 21st card:
LE MONDE (THE WORLD)
Physical, Spiritual, Mental, Emotional = I am
Reminder: Don't stay too long!
Enlightenment and Cage are the two sides of the same coin.
Instead of viewing them as destinations, see them as movements, forces to push the journey forward.
The journey is like Russian Roulette. It would help if you found out which card is thrown at you, when.
One step forward, one step backward.
(So, going nowhere?)
Even when nothing seems to be happening, things are happening.
Waltz, {Waltzen, "to roll or revolve"}
3/4 mm-BAP-bap
The mm is the acknowledgment of the pattern,
BAP is the explosion of "the learning outcome."
bap is when the Universe throws another lesson again to ensure you've cleared the game,
like hitting a strike in bowling.
Mystical Wedding
a union of the Soul.
Feminity and Masculinity commit to each other fully.
(for graphic instruction, check out Carl Jung's Rosarium Philosophorum)
Yin and Yang is a way to describe its dance movement.
To feel the presence of fluidity,
Stand Still
watch and listen between the seen and the unseen, the sound and unsound.
inMotion
Traveling from Point A to Point B
What changed? What remains?
The sailor is you, and the wise captain is also you.
Are you still running from yourself, or are you only afraid to say goodbye?
Ancestral Nostalgia: Memories heard from older generations. These memories are not mine, but when I arrive at a foreign place, I can connect and relate to it emotionally. It is pretty interesting to discover this type of nostalgia on this trip.
Ethnographic Research in the mode of traveling via different ways of transporting from point A to B in Cambodia.
Psychological Movements:
Familiarity vs. Change
Fear vs. Excitement
Comfort vs. Adventure
...
What does one gain and discard from stepping out of the mundane?
How does the individual emotionally process the changes and growth?
How do I translate these feelings gathered from motion into art experiences?
Medium: Moving Image + Sound
Distance towards Deeper Intimacy
Medium: Photography + Spoken Words
Lowfi Zz
Medium: Warmweather Music
Time Shift
Medium: Techno
Butterflies Valley sounds like the Dragonflies Wings
Medium: Music + Installation
Peach in the Sea
Sometimes I feel like a Peach in the Sea
The instant footage changed its meaning for every single one of you the moment you viewed it.
At this instance, are you being reminded of something?
Captured, collected
from one’s Perspective, and expanded.
I said I believe and agree with everything you said.
You smiled and took my word for it.
How cute; you are delusional.
As delusional as I am.
Wait a second,
I don’t buy into your shaky world.
Are you pissed off?
Why?
Must we believe the same?
We never do anyway.
There is no line of separation,
we can CO-exist.
I promise.
The images I throw at you,
you have seen them somewhere.
They remind you of something.
You materialize your own story out of them.
We do that, humans
too eager to make sense of the external around them,
world building,
GOD COMPLEX.
Perhaps we are just sick and bored of our own stories.
We wanna feel special,
yet still ordinary enough to blend in.
That’s all I’m going to say,
I will shut up now.
Medium: Moving Image
IED Visual Identity x GradShow RCA2023
Medium: Video
Fatima
Medium: Short Film
Elegies of Sanctity
Medium: Sound Design
Random Access Memories
Medium: AudioVisual