Non-sense is fascinating. Why does everything need to serve a purpose or a meaning? Nowadays, our affinities with objects, places, and all other creatures have become extremely difficult to explain if you reference only a logical manner. From Meret Oppenheim’s Object in the 40s to highway signs that display “stay home” messages now amid the outbreak of COVID-19, our interpretation and interaction with things confer vitality to them. Confronted by such a vivid experience, the boundary between animate and inanimate objects grows blurry.

We are all in this continuum which blinds us from the fact that binary boundaries between nature/culture, human/non-human, and subjectivity/objectivity may not be as steadfast as they seem. This shed light upon Animism, a belief that all entities in the world possess a life force, soul and natural spirit. Yet, modernity has removed this soul of things so that capitalism has a role to play. Our ways of thinking are often times associated with the colonial perspective of conquest and indoctrination of the ‘other’ by the ‘center’, just as we define and value all other beings using our own dictionary and measurement. Therefore, I want to create a piece that examines modernity on the basis that not all possibilities are held within our principles of reason and reality. If art is a problem of communication to which ever-changing perspectives are absolutely imperative, then the goal is never to proselytize, but to discuss how these frontiers are constructed and will be constructed.

In this modern age, our preconceived notion of approaching things that we don’t know much about through conquest and indoctrination is analogous to our communication with non-human entities. We, the colonists,
are being amazingly aggressive to the colonized “things” and leaving them no space to fight back.