Particle IX | 2009 | Jen-Kuang Chang
Particle IX | 2009 | Jen-Kuang Chang

Waking up from a motionless dream around three o’clock in the morning, I was physically and emotionally prickly like a baby polar bear being carried around inside of a mommy Kangoroo’s pouch for a week. I closed my eyes for five minutes, pretending that I was just dreaming about waking up within a dream. Gee. It didn’t work. I was wide-awake. What made the situation worse was that I, little by little, was intellectually aroused by the possibility of getting up to read Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude under the dark, cold night sky. I gave in. Took a mini shower. Brushed my teeth. Counted my fingers and head. Still just one average-looking head fragilely attaching to my average-looking neck. Excellent. After making a fine cup of café au lait to get myself into the reading mood, I was very upset to find out that I was no longer aroused by Márquez’s lines!

The temperature was bitingly low. Still. I silently yelled. Oh, no.


This episode was immediately followed by the production of Particle, a series of photos shot in my apartment. It was a very revitalizing experience to shoot photos in a close-to-zero-light-condition, free of a tripod, in a Jackson-Pollock-ish fashion.

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