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Post-digital Angst, 2023 - Present

The State of Being Dragged, 2022

The Form of Ideology, 2020 - Present

Digital and Transcendental, Death and Light, 2019

Eventually Obsolete, 2018

Untitled (A Mark/ Self-Portrait), 2017

Celestial, Lake Michigan, 2017

When My Mind is Clear but My Body is Weak, 2016

I Picked This Up So When I’m Not Here,
You Can Look At It, 2016

“Who shut up the sea behind doors
when it burst forth from the womb”, 2015







Burned Thoughts, 2022


16:9, HD, Color, 6'16', Silent



The Chinese word for “Anxiety” is 「焦慮」, which literally translates to “burned thoughts/worries” - as if when one thinks too much, their thoughts are scorched. 

Inspired by this etymology, a superslow motion video of a burning candle was captured. Upon first glance, the lit candle seems to be offering peace to its viewer, yet it is when one further observes, when they will realize the movements of the flame is unusally quick and sudden.

Through manipulating the frame-per-second of the video, each flicker of the flame was speedboosted 800x times, resulting in a flickering light that moves in sudden motions, resembling the contraction of muscles and mumbling of anxious thoughts.
Mark



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