A SPLIT SECOND OF ETERNITY

2018-2019, Mixed-reality (MR) installation / NFT 2022 (Edition: 1/1)

A Split Second of Eternity is a large-scale mixed-reality (MR) installation combining painting with advanced interactive technology such as 3D gestural control. This installation communicates the intricate relationship between time, reality, and memory. It is the artist’s tribute to his father who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease.

This installation has been featured at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (New York), the Museum at FIT (New York), and Art Center at Central University (Taiwan).

A Homage: Curtain Call / Oil on Linen / 180 cm x 135 cm / Digital Remastered for NFT in 2022

A Split Second of Eternity Octatych includes eight scrolls on linen. Each scroll is 4 1/2 feet wide, 16 feet long, and depicts a withering rose in a frozen moment. It is a metaphor for how the human brain segments continuous experience into separate memories of events.

Also included in the installation are two large interactive projections, A Split Second of Eternity: Dharmachakra Mudra. To resurrect the virtual roses back to life, the viewer has to perform a dharmachakra mudra—bring the tips of the thumb and index fingers together to form a circle and keep the remaining three fingers stretched. In Buddhism, dharmachakra mudra is considered a representation of Buddha’s teachings about the cosmic order from the heart, which sets into motion the wheel of dharma.

A Split Second of Eternity: Ephemeral prototype. This piece communicates the artist’s own sense of powerlessness while facing the inevitable.

A Split Second of Eternity: Vanity is a symbolic interpretation of the artist’s sense of denial and the feeble attempts at rejecting reality.