image credit @ Paul Tam
“Between Presence” operates as a hybrid device—flower holder, lamp, sundial—while simultaneously functioning as an exhibition apparatus for the antiques of Shadowares. It is less an object than a small system, a negotiated territory where natural processes and historical artifacts are forced into proximity.
Its modular logic resists a singular reading. Instead, each rearrangement produces a new scenario: flowers aging, light migrating, objects asserting their accumulated histories. Time is not a backdrop but an active ingredient, continuously reorganizing the relationships between things.
In this shifting constellation, illumination, and shadow behave like architectural program. The past is not commemorated; it is recalibrated. Every item becomes a participant in a dynamic timeline—neither preserved nor frozen, but situated in a perpetual, quietly unfolding present.