‘Mortality Reminder: Mirror’ combines the traditional momento mori symbol of the mirror, which highlights the folly of vanity in the context of our mortality, with the modern momento mori symbol of the glowstick. The piece invites the viewer to activate a glowstick, triggering a glow that echoes our mortality in its temporality.

‘Mortality Reminder: Banquets’ invites the viewer to activate a glowstick; the resulting light illumines a translation of a Chinese saying visible through a small opening in the frame. ‘All banquets must come to an end’ is a linguistic momento mori mechanism highlighting the transitory nature of existence.