I represented the concept of coexistence by further expanding the topic discussed in the last work Life Possession Tax(2021). We must concede or sacrifice something to coexist with ourselves and other beings. This is the message I want to talk about in coexistence, the subject of this work.

 In order to visualize this concept, I got a motif from my personal experience. Visibility was the biggest thing to be sacrificed to coexist in one space and time with my gecko. Geckos do not like light because they are nocturnal whereas I’m diurnal, so it is hard to see something without light. Therefore, I had to give up visibility to coexist in the same space when the gecko was active.

 I decided to use fog as one of the materials to visualize the property of visibility. I thought that the substance of fog has both visibility and invisibility properties. Only when there is light, the material that maximizes visibility, fog can reduce our visibility. In other words, it is possible to have invisible properties in a visible state. At the same time, in the dark, the fog becomes invisible and it cannot reduce our visibility. In conclusion, the fog is a medium that can ‘coexist’ visibility and invisibility.

 I designed an installation artwork that could represent the concept of coexistence using this fog. A sphere-shaped lamp that represents visibility effectively is floated on black ink, which can represent an invisibility. These two cannot easily coexist through buoyancy, but the fog and ink that spout from the fog generator forces them to coexist. Light and darkness, that is, visibility and invisibility, coexist through concessions and sacrifice while covering the light little by little through the process of splashing ink on the white shiny spheres while creating fog.