T: In fact, my works are always making “noise”, which probably annoy my studio partners quite a bit. The principle of how each sound is made and the purpose behind are worth studying and pondering on. For example, Like a Breeze plays my sister’s snores when she is asleep, which resembles the sound of wind-blowing. When encountering this work, the audience might first think it is the sound of the wind, but would soon discover that it is snoring. As for Wait, it creates the screechy sound of porcelain made when the cup lid glides over the rim. Through this work, I tried to imitate the scene of my father drinking tea in the morning – a sound I wake up to every day. We are surrounded by various “noises” in daily life, some could be disturbing at first, but it may also be a sweet thing to recall.

Another familiar sound is the chimes of the ice-cream van. When I was a child, my mother used to wheedle me into eating the bitter gourd and said, “I will buy you an ice-cream after this.” While my mind was filled with the sweet treat from the ice-cream van, I was eating the repelling bitter gourd. The whole thing was pretty paradoxical in itself, and the head and tail of bitter gourd is somewhat similar to that of an ice-cream. I therefore created Buy you an ice-cream after you have finished this, a music box playing chimes of ice-cream van with a bitter gourd rotating on top. Another work White Flag is also related to bitter gourd.