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Speculative fiction writer William Gibson, famous for his quote: “The future is there...looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become”, once mentioned in his official blog that: “Terrorism as we ordinarily understand it is innately media-related.” As an artist encouraging physical interaction under our era of excessive digital information, I have a sceptical and shifting standpoint for the rocketing modern technology. The ficto-mythology of the future that my artwork delivers is an unstable one, a transitional one, an unknown one.

The installation is a three-meter-tall bunch of “stress balls” made of metallic balloons and dyed oobleck (a mixture of water and cornflour). The bunch is hung from the ceiling and lands on the floor (subject to change depending on site restrictions). The oobleck is dyed into different colors so that the installation becomes an ever-changing sculpture when participants squeeze the balloons.

My artwork draws inspiration from the uncertainty, uncontrollability and even the occasional disturbance presented by biomorphic forms. It intends to create a sensorial experience for the participants to directly confront the chaoic beauty of the future.