"Three Two One" is an installation about separation and wishing.
The work is inspired by the structure of a soundproof window: three layers of glass and two sealed cavities. These cavities are designed to block sound, but here they become an imagined space where a wish can exist.
A wish is never only the moment when it is made, or the moment when it comes true. It exists somewhere in between. The sealed cavities give this "in-between" a physical form. They have boundaries and thickness, but inside they are empty. Filled with inert gas, they do not react to anything—they simply preserve the space. This suspended state reflects the nature of making a wish.
The three glass panels are shaped like the bark of a plane tree. Barnacles and seashells physically separate the layers. A door handle, seashells, and barnacles act as objects that mark the space in between.
Three images are placed from top to bottom: a coin held by a Bodhisattva, a group of worshipped Buddha statues, and a photograph lying flat at the bottom. In the photograph, two open hands face upward, looking like they are making a wish or offering something.
Could a soundproof window itself be a kind of wish? The cavities both separate and contain. They are part of a building, but they also measure the distance between one thing and another.
The exhibition is titled House, Tree, Person. The tree-bark-shaped glass represents the tree, the open hands represent the person, and the“Three Two One”structure represents the house. A window naturally exists between these three. It is always negotiating between inside and outside, silence and noise, shelter and exposure.