Finding Birdie (2022)

Through this video piece, I reflected on the relationship between imagery and time, wondering why we feel the need to record images and how photographs or videos seem to hold time in place.

By capturing still frames from a continuous video, turning them into prints, re-photographing them, and placing them back into the timeline. Questioning why the flow of time feels so different from the stillness of a frozen moment. What makes a moment worth preserving? By pausing and transforming these fleeting instants into prints, I hoped to give them emotional weight, inviting the viewer to linger within them. To me, imagery carries a texture and emotion beyond reason, heightened in the quiet act of editing.

The latter part of the work, showing frames of windows, feels like the beginning of a separate piece. The light and architectural shapes cutting through the frame create a quiet tension, like the echoes of caves or the slow, deliberate process of painting. Through this, I explore how form, light, and stillness can hold a resonance that stretches beyond the moment.