The concept for Floating came from the absent minded state that happens during movement. I usually daydream while I travel, and I feel as if I am having an out of body experience that is impossible to describe with words. As physics explains, when a person is being transported a perceptual paradox is produced. For example, while we are riding in a vehicle our vision and conscious mind tell us that we are moving, but we have the feeling that our bodies are motionless within the vehicle. Therefore, our perception creates this discrepancy or paradox of simultaneous motion and stillness. In my own experience, while working in front of my computer for long hours, playing computer games or using messaging software, I often have the same sensation. Since I am looking into the illusory space inside of the computer and my body isn’t actually moving, the same kind of perceptual discrepancy is produced.

Ordinarily, during my work time or when I am just sitting in front of the computer, I often use a messaging program to chat or communicate with other people. In this third body condition, I am present but have no physical presence. There’s no time difference problem, it’s just that you don’t think about sleep until you’re tired. If you were to transform this experience into a visual idea, it would be like I am traveling down a virtual road and a great number of digital signals pass through my brain, ceaselessly getting sucked in. The body (the immaterial body) floats along this thoroughfare without a feeling of time. I try to take these firsthand experiences in the digital world and extend and assemble them into the concept of floating in my work.

In the series Floating Project, I have tried to combine applications of technological media to express this idea of perceptual paradoxes. This situation could be a kind of perceptual experience in everyone’s life, like being in a trance or daydreaming. In this series, I utilize my own perceptions and technology to explain this kind of experience.