never mind;

2025. Personal Dishes, Epoxy, Stainless Steel Sink

80cm x 49cm x 34cm

“never mind;” is a mixed-media sculpture that examines our intimate relationship with mortality through the lens of the everyday. By pairing a weighty concept, death, with the absurdly mundane act of washing dishes, it foregrounds how our daily tasks, however tedious, anchor us in life. In the rhythm of scrubbing and rinsing, we confront the banality of existence: each soaked plate becomes proof that we are here.

As Buddhist ideology states, “suffering is existence.” In the minor frustrations of daily chores, we encounter the raw evidence of being alive. Yet when those chores no longer call us at life's end, their disappearance paradoxically erases the proofs of our existence. “Death” thus invites viewers to consider how the simple acts that ground our days are also the threads that weave our lives and ultimately define their end.

The dishes and utensils in the sink are submerged in epoxy, seemingly frozen in time, as if someone's existence had been abruptly stripped away, leaving the aftermath, or the objects that used to prove their existence.