When Life Becomes Materials

In Buddhism, the body exists in the form of flesh and will finally turn into the earth after death. I am curious about the exact moment that a life is gone. I filmed the shivering dying fish and its eye. The looping videos do not manifest the boundary between life and death but freeze the fish eternally in time between dying and regenerating. The fish was finally dissected into parts in plastic bags and consumed at the end. Using the fish as a metaphor, my work attempts to reveal the alienation of humans from nature and other species. It also deconstructs the true meaning of death in addition to senses of compassion and indifference. By juxtaposing the moving image loops and the still, I further explore the possibility and limitation of traditional mediums and how the mediums are connotated as the message.