LULLADY
RECENT WORKS (2021-2025)

TI-LAKKHANA 2025


I have been drawn to the fleeting and mysterious spectral quality of shadow play for a long time. In ancient China and Indonesia, shadow puppetry are often used to conjure ghosts and cleansing children from bad luck. I see this installation as a ritual and a meditative portal.

Ti-Lakkhana means the Three Characteristics in Buddhism - Anicca (impermanence), dukkha (suffering), and anatta (non-self).  

I made three 3-D Triskelia puppets circling around a hanging ping-pong ball. 

The sculptures themselves look insignificant, but their shadow projection can be enormous depending on the relationship in between these objects, light sources, empty space to the wall, and the viwer’s postion.

The three Triskelia constantly rotate, brush, crash, interrupt each other and the ping-pong ball in an unexpected rhythmic manner. The shadow projected onto the wall illuminates various perceptions and interactions in the numerous encounters, but everything seems illusive and nothing is attainable.

As time passes, the three shadow puppets, the ping-pong ball, and the viewers dissolve into each other. 
Oxbow School of Art, MI.