Slide Mount, laminating film, residue of everyday, label sticker and ink Something exists quietly around me, breathing little. The negligible debris of everyday life—a leek in soup, an eyelash on a cheek, fluffy dust, a spider’s carcass on the windowsill, eraser shavings, or a piece of scattered candy—is itself a tiny body, visible or invisible, born somewhere unknown and forgotten somewhere else, equally unknown. I choose to pick them up, intervening before they vanish from my memory. I compress and enclose them in a container, exposing their existence. Each object sheds its former character and memory, taking on a new life—one that moves inevitably toward death, or perhaps toward another life. They wait quietly in the corners of my room, their own disappearance approaching. They remain in the world according to the natural order of “being born and dying,” seeming far more modest than we are. Through those small existence I have encountered, I imagine in my own room that the cosmos could be composed of trivial moments, different stories, and personal memories in the midst of great power that is inevitable for us and cannot be resisted. This project began in 2022 and continues as an ongoing lifelong project. On the back side, the date and title are written in the language of the place where the object was collected.