Ephemeral Visions

Ephemeral Visions is a time-based video work that explores presence, memory, and impermanence through the interplay of body, fabric, and sound. The artist’s body becomes both mark-maker and ghost, revealing itself only through its temporary impression on a suspended, stretchy fabric. With each press and movement, paint transfers onto the textile, slowly tracing a human silhouette that oscillates between visibility and disappearance.

The fabric functions as a veil—at once barrier and canvas—stretching and resisting the body’s force while recording ephemeral encounters. The viewer never sees the artist directly; instead, what remains are echoes of touch, labor, and time.

Accompanied by a minimalist soundtrack of dripping water that evokes the ticking of a clock, the work underscores the passing of time, the slowness of transformation, and the inevitability of change. The drops act as sonic reminders of mortality, routine, and repetition—marking each second that the body presses itself into existence and fades again.

This piece reflects on the fragility of identity, the traces we leave behind, and the tension between visibility and erasure. It invites viewers to witness intimacy without full disclosure, and to consider what it means to be seen, to be felt, and to slowly vanish.

The piece was exhibit at New World School of the Arts Gallery in 2014.