Waves and Magenta
2021
Looped Video
Grandma has been watching the same TV series ever since brother was in Grade 4, he is now a rising highschool junior. Every home visit in summer, I find myself plunged into a timeless space where past and present can hardly be distinguished. Visually speaking, it was as if we were under the timeless ocean. Meanwhile, I hopelessly wished to know where her mind wanders to when sitting in front of the blue light screen.
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Magenta has no wavelength. It was generated by the brain to make sense of the mixing violet and red light. In other words, it is an abstract entity created inside a human's limited perceptual ability.
Television and aquariums are similar. Like fishes captured behind the glass, moving images appeared on the glass panel, capturing human’s eyes and minds.
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The advent of television was the emancipation of one from their physical confinement albeit the emergence of an infinite void where one floated unconsciously with the electromagnetic radiation.