Installation
Echoes Toward Tomorrow
Installation
35×25×77 cm
Aluminum extrusion, wood, 3D-printed PETG, ESP32 microcontroller, PWM cooling fan
Formally, the three fans are arranged as a spine-like structure: a vertical sequence that echoes vertebrae, presenting the body not as an intact figure but as a dismantled framework. This deconstructed “skeleton” turns anatomy into an exposed system—an abstract support that holds motion, rhythm, and strain.
The fans emit a soft, breathing light. When a viewer blows into the sensor, they activate sequentially from top to bottom. Each fan intensifies the previous one: Fan 2 spins brighter, faster, and longer than Fan 1, while Fan 3 further amplifies Fan 2. This progression suggests that memory moves forward—not as repetition, but as intensification and transformation.
The viewer’s breath acts as a non-conscious trigger of memory, echoing Marcel Proust’s concept of involuntary memory. Yet the action here does not recall the past; instead, it propels us toward the future.
The work proposes that the future is not distant but continuously constructed through gestures and inherited impulses. Though uncertain, its trajectory is already inscribed within what persists. It is not only remembered—
it remembers.