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Glass Moth

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Glass Moth is a haunting meditation on identity, illusion, and the fragile boundary between fantasy and reality. It begins with the image of a translucent fairy, visible only in flickers of light — a glass moth that is transparent yet elusive, constantly changing, evolving, and fading. Suspended like shards of mirror, it reflects our deepest fears and desires in crystalline distortions. In its fractures, we search for truth, even as the gaze is returned to us in unsettling silence.

Inspired by David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly, the project unfolds like a hallucination, capturing transformations of identity shaped by theater, illusion, and self-consciousness. It examines the double-edged spectatorship rooted in orientalist projections, asking what happens when viewership, fantasy, and longing for intimacy become entangled — not leading to transcendence, but to a fractured sense of self.

Spanning global myths and personal desires, Glass Moth reflects on the creative and destructive power of imagination. When the dream itself shatters, little of the dreamer remains.

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