MEMORABILIA

TIMES ART MUSEUM, BEIJING + CHENGDU, CHINA 2023

Memorabilia emerges from Remember Me, a time-based digital installation centered on a single tulip that bloomed collectively and vanished in real time. In that work, meaning was produced through shared experience rather than ownership; no single image was valued above another, and disappearance marked its completion. Though the artworks are archived on-chain, “Memory” is all that visually exists.

This installation isolates the Afterlife tulip from that collective system. The flowers that vanished at the conclusion of Remember Me are laser etched inside crystal bricks. By embedding that fleeting tulip into crystal, Memorabilia reflects on speculative value, ephemerality, and the human impulse to preserve what inevitably fades.

⚘ Stop and smell the flowers ⚘

Behind the memorial lies an immersive digital installation. A full LED wall displays selected works from Afterlife, an underwater series of transparent plants. A mirrored floor and shallow water pool sit at the base of the screen, reflecting the work’s natural aquatic environment. A betta fish swims within a glass tank, echoing its appearance in the films.