'Someone died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know.'
Dec. 2022Text Design, Immersive Experience, Video Installation
What are we doing when we deny all emotions and all outward forms? What are we left with?
This is a text-based scenario curated inspired by the first chapter of The Stranger by Albert Camus.
The main character of The Stranger, Mersault, was experiencing the uncomfortableness during his mother’s funeral. As a stranger and an observer, his coolness and disengagement were absolutely authentic. Love, or affection, has nothing to do with its expression.
The project is expressed from two voices. First, as an outsider of the story / the funeral, one might see the nice weather with the gentle wind. These seemingly objective perceptions apply only to the observer. At the same time, regulations for the funeral, representing the formality for the sadness, can be created and then tore up, piled up and stepped on as a destruction.
The project is about denial and objectivity. What would love be if any form of showing love is fake? How would emotion be expressed? What if regulations about sentimentals are created and then tore up?
Touch Designer, Projector, Paper