2025.06

resin, stainless steel, rope, spray paint, flocking powder

150cm x 180cm x 65cm

Whenever I create an installation, I always begin with the same intention: to invent a new lifeform. It doesn't need to truly exist in the real world-what matters is that it lives vividly in the vast ocean of my mind. This " creature" is not from outer space, but from an inner universe. I'm not particularly obsessed with the idea of aliens, but I've always been drawn to the unknown. Having grown up immersed in science fiction films and surreal animations, I gradually realized how people's imaginations of extraterrestrial beings are often confined by visual stereotypes. If there are no real aliens in this world, then why not create my own?

The Soft Witness is the beginning of such a species- soft, ambiguous, and unnamed.

The central pink structure is deliberately kept mysterious. It resembles an organ, a sensory extension, or a dormant creature. It might be a lung, a mouth, a gland, or perhaps a passive antenna. Its soft contours and fragile color evoke an intimate sense of the body-somewhere between desire, breath, and silence. I didn't want it to be terrifying or invasive, but rather soft, breathing, and perhaps misunderstood.

A think rope extends from its body and swings gently-like a pendulum, or perhaps a tendril. The rhythm it creates is not a mechanical sense of time, but a bodily one: a breath, a heartbeat, a pulse. It is alive in its own way. Some say it looks like a tail, others see it as a sensory organ reaching out to the world. I welcome these interpretations.

This is not merely a sculpture-it is more like a lifeform, suspended between fiction and reality. It is an emotional entity, a strange being grown from the landscape of my thoughts. A fragment of imagined evolution-soft, sentient,