Buried In Time: Shimmer unfolds as a square installation, assembled from over 200 dark, clay-hued ceramic bricks. Each brick carries relief figures—delicately sculpted, like fragments of stories embedded in earth. Seen from above through a two-way mirror, the structure becomes an illusion: an endless tunnel receding into the ground, its depths dissolving into infinity. This descent suggests an act of quiet excavation, as if peeling back layers of time to reveal traces of lives once lived.
Inside, the light slowly brightens, then dims again, and the figures seem to emerge into sharp relief before fading back into obscurity—like the faint glimmers of hope one longs to hold onto, or the elusive void one tries to forget. In this shifting illumination, presence and absence flow into one another, mirroring the fragility of memory: what remains is never fixed, but constantly appearing and dissolving.
The installation draws on the visual language of Chinese historical art and storytelling, reinterpreting it through the tactile and architectural qualities of ceramic bricks. It is both an homage to cultural heritage and an exploration of how history lives within us—layered, fractured, and refracted through personal experience. By inviting viewers to look down into the illusionary depths, Buried In Time: Shimmer asks them to confront the interplay between the permanence of material and the impermanence of human memory, to feel both the weight of the past and the quiet shimmer it leaves behind..
2023
Porcelain
45”x45”x45”

