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Quagmire

I was once lying on my surfboard, zoning out and waiting for the next wave to come,
on my own on the sea.
Suddenly I heard the sound far away from my left side, I STRAIGHTENED UP
like a Mongoose
and looking at the end of the seascape:
bubbles coming up and down,
with the rhythm of the ocean.
Closer,
things shuttling up and down through the sea level,
closer,
huge
​amount.

2 hours lying by the sea, Brighton, South England.
Remained free and clear of any critical implication beyond the artist(or the waves)'s physical displacement.
Probably, a good way to absent-minded from Urban life. -)

Material: Waves
Filmed by Yajing Hu
​March 2018

Material: Air
Part three of the Performance <Quagmire>
WhiteLab Central Saint Martins

Ten times Free Fall experience from 15,000 Ft.
A meditational journey starts from the moment out the aircraft,
ends up with feet touch the land.

The project remained free and clear of any critical implication beyond the artist's physical displacement.
Probably, a good way to absent-minded from Urban life. -)

Credit to:
Alistair Cameron and Skydive Spain

Time is a concept of human mind,
that exists only within mind.
Outside of mind
and
its multiplicity
of concepts and theories,
there is only the ever-present,
continuous, and uninterrupted Now.
Therefore,
anything outside
of the here and now
is non-existent.
The past is merely an appearance
that exists within the human function of memory.
It has no present reality.
– Brian Thompson

45mins walk along the ridge all the way down hill to the camera.
The project remained free and clear of any critical implication beyond the artist's physical displacement.

Material: A ridge from the Lake District, North England
Filmed by Lawrence Wu
​March 2018

LESLIE YAO @ 2023

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