The Butterfly Dream

These suspended forms inhabit a threshold between visibility and disappearance. Emerging through translucent layers, they appear both present and inaccessible, inviting the viewer into a space of uncertainty.

Inspired by Zhuang Zhou’s Butterfly Dream, the work reflects on the instability of perception and the fragile distinction between reality and imagination. The story raises a simple yet unsettling question: how can we ever be certain of the state we occupy?

The garments become vessels for this ambiguity. Neither fully inhabited nor entirely empty, they linger between memory and apparition, body and absence. Wrapped within transparent barriers, they suggest lives, identities, and truths that remain partially obscured. The work proposes uncertainty not as a problem to be resolved, but as a condition we continuously inhabit, navigating the space between what is revealed and what remains hidden.