Suspended Bouquet

MP4 | 1920x1920 | WITH SOUND | 1:40 | 2023

Inspired by Cindia Luest’s ‘The Spice Temple’, SUSPENDED BOUQUET follows a character who starts a new creative chapter after a lifetime as a classical pianist. The artwork features the artist’s performance of Chopin’s Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2, remixed and recoded to capture themes of repetition and lingering memory.

The development of the piece seeks to convey an introspective journey that captures fragmented memory and its transformation with time and distance. The act of repetition becomes an integral part of the concept and process. Each time a memory is replayed, it dynamically shifts and elaborates on itself — not unlike Chopin’s Nocturne with its rounded binary structure. The effect is mirrored through generative AI and a repetitive, recursive process of out-painting that elaborates and expands on prior generations while retaining its memory of an initial image.

The audio track expresses a different version of repetition — static and unresolved in its melody. Strains of trills and ornamentation echo throughout. It is only when the visual animation takes on an abstract sensorial, almost gustatory, texture that the possibility of resolution is introduced. The audio and animation merge in synchronous closure by the end of the narrative — signaling a punctuation on one chapter as another blooms.