I was running up and down the creek for days, and was intrigued by the circle of life and death, the interrelationship between human civilization and nature. I had a feeling of being dissolved, and realized that the entirety of human will and intention ultimately blended into an organic process, regardless of human intent. In some way, humanity was just like the formless water of the creek. I had an idea to make a piece of artwork that dealt with the mixed relationship between our cultural existence and nature. This reminded me of the tragic story of a young artist who ultimately ended her life in a creek. She went to a place where liquid, a life source, coursed through an eternal and peaceful environment, yet with every minute changed with complex, hidden activity. The plain quality of nature together with its hidden complexity of time and space gave me the inspiration to use the creek as a site for my artwork. To me, water is a metaphor of reincarnation.
For this project, I selected many poems about love and death from different cultures. I printed the poems on transparencies of different colors, and coated them with resin to transform them into flat and transparent objects like leaves in many different shape and sizes. I installed the leaves of visual poetry along the creek of the Foundation's property, where they were surrounded by woods and rocks. All of these objects looked like pieces of ice before a sunrise coming upon the creek. When a spot of sunlight hits the water, it reveals the texts and also, in shadow, prints the image on the bottom of the creek or rock. At the same time, some water life are already attached to the bottom of the object and little insects like water skippers, jump between the surfaces of the floating objects.