The end of night

Or the beginning of day

Should you get up and start the day

Or fall asleep at once

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高緯度的冬天大概有三分之二的時間都是黑夜，睡不著的我總會睜著眼等待黎明到來，好像天沒亮之前都還留在前一天似的，但事實上今天與昨天從來不是一瞬間的變換。我用縮時攝影拍下自己在工作室等待黎明的過程，但播出時依照實際的時間，每20秒換一張。如果觀眾想看到太陽升起，就得跟我一起等，而且無法知道會等多久。過程中我看似靜靜坐著等待，其實觀眾無法知道每張照片之間的20秒鐘我有沒有做些什麼。我們從間隔中創造連續，但又在真實的連續中尋求間隔；影片所帶給人的時間經驗，是千百張靜態影格，經過大腦的計算所形成，而我們對世界的認知也是透過大腦的歸納，並非世界真正的樣貌。

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Waiting for Dawn (2020) is a video piece which shows me sitting in the gallery and wait for sunrise. It was shot with time-lapse photography but played in the speed of real time. Just like me in the video, the audiences wouldn’t know how much time there is before dawn when they start to watch the video, and they have to wait with me if they really want to see the dawn. The so-called video is actually hundreds of pictures change every twenty seconds. During the twenty seconds, audiences couldn’t know what exactly I was doing until next picture. That waiting process is formed by hundreds of static images and the calculation of our own brain, which then create the experience of real time. The form of this work implies the way we deduce our world, but not what the world is really like.