信号浮游 Signal Drifting
2025
Natural stones, epoxy resin, pigment, wood, components from discarded smartwatches
30 x 60 cm
Signal Drifting is a poetic archaeology of electronic civilization’s remnants—an introspective meditation on time, material, and the fate of information. The discarded electronic components used in the piece were once minute yet critical parts of smart devices, carrying dense data flows and memories of human-machine interaction. Now encased in resin like fossils of the technological era, they are reconstituted into a new form of sculptural life.
The installation takes the form of a suspended structure, delicately hanging in space. It sways gently with the air currents, emitting a silent “echo,” like drifting fragments of signal floating between time and space. Each unit is composed of dismantled elements from obsolete smartwatches—chips, induction wires, and other miniature parts—embedded in transparent epoxy resin alongside natural stones and pigments. At the center of the piece is a near-circular structure, whose undulating surface evokes the imagery of mountain ranges and oceanic trenches, symbolizing the sedimentation and eventual fading of technological artifacts within a geological time scale. This form simultaneously resembles a macrocosmic landscape and the abstract circuitry of a microchip, blurring the boundary between the natural and the artificial.
Once luminous, transmitting, and audible, these electronic components now “sleep” quietly within their transparent encasement, visually suspended like plankton between reality and memory. Signal Drifting constructs a visual ecosystem that is both biomimetic and futuristic—inviting the viewer to reconsider the relationship between material, technology, and time with each lingering gaze.