Context
Dust Is Dust
The human experience of seeing amplified stars and dust is much the same; stars are a macro view and dust a micro view. This work presents the audience with a reality shot by an electron microscope of dust, which is beyond the limit of the naked eye. The invisible dimly exists, while the visible might not be real. (I feel that the human experience of seeing stars and seeing dust particles are indistinguishable from one another. If we think about stars as being a macro representation of something, then dust particles are micro representations of that same thing. For this piece, I collected dust particles from my home and magnified them 300,000 times under a microscope. This image of dust looks almost identical to images of stars we see from NASA. The two become interchangeable; stars are dust and dust is stars. I consider there to be no invisible because even if we can’t see it, it still exists. On the other hand, what we can see with the naked eye and consider to be real, might not be.
I put some white coloured water into a bowl with a diameter of three meters. I projected a video of the magnified dust onto the water, which rotates clockwise as the water rotates anticlockwise. When you stand by the work, you feel that it is stationary. In fact it is the two opposing elements fighting each other, which allows them to reach equilibrium and therefore appear stationary.)
