In the pursuit of instrumental rationality and efficiency in the era of automation, individuals are gradually alienated from their everyday lives. The act of gazing upon the familiar yet unfamiliar trivialities in daily life resembles an experience of neurodegenerative disease. Even when faced with ordinary moments shared countless times, we still feel estranged and adrift.
“Synesthesia”, or “synaesthesia”, is used to describe the phenomenon where different sensory perceptions trigger each other. For example, auditory stimuli causing perceptions of smells, or tactile interactions with textures evoking visualizations of images. In this series, Lu documents the dissolution of sensory boundaries in ordinary moments of life. She re-constructs the trivial moments of daily life in her synesthetic experiences by using mixed media. This aims to rekindle the alienated life with an intimate strangeness and serves as a remedy for the societal disease of “the regression of feelings”