I am interested in capturing the absurd moments of everyday life. The entryway is a video installation and performance sound art piece. The work is a simulation of a real space during the quarantine. I created this multi-layer space by filming a residential entryway with a flickering bulb in the city. This scene is projected onto a mattress with a mattress cover. The smaller screen from the iPad attached to the body; the tightness of space keeps it up. The shadow of the viewer’s body passing in front of the larger projection captures the ghostly presence of a phantom. My own body is squeezed in the space between the mattress and the mattress cover. The audio is composed of the recorded sounds of a strobe light bulb and the whirring of the subway. Entryway attempts to recall the normal lives and the intimacy of human connection that I miss while staging the trauma - and weirdness - of life under lockdown through this interplay of projected images, surfaces, and bodies.

I intend to confuse the viewer with this piece. The flickering effect caused by a broken bulb in the entryway leads the viewer into space. Some may notice the pattern of the light’s flicker is the international S.O.S. signal: the light flashes quickly three times, slowly three times, then quickly three times again. In this way, Entryway reflects the threat and the loss caused by the global pandemic, but also the disorientation and repetition of our daily lives in the dwelling space under lockdown. Moreover, the layers in the piece are difficult to separate. What is being projected, and where? The film of the entryway with the strobing light is projected onto my body under the mattress cover. As the viewer walks in front of the mattress, their body blocks the larger projection; consequently, the video is projected onto their body. The smaller scene of the entryway continues inside the mattress cover. Relationships between people, people and objects, and interior and exterior are activated by projection, display, installation, and performance: the panic, fear, disorientation, repetition, and loss of physical intimacy and closeness with other people we experience in the dwelling space under lockdown. Other questions come from the present context. The whole world is feeling and sharing the same sense of panic from the virus. A sense of void and emptiness has spread through cities all over the world. How do we engage with others and the outside world?