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In the Dusk of Future Life
2022

3 screen HD video, 9:16, 4:58min, sound

In the Dusk of Future Life is a three-screen video installation built around the original poem Dusk. The poem functions both as an ode and a lament addressed to a future child, giving voice to the tenderness, uncertainty, and grief that can accompany imagining a life that may never come to be. Moving between hope and hesitation, the work reflects on what it means to project love into an unknown future.

The film unfolds in three segments: a shared meal in which a fish is passed and slowly eaten, a pregnancy in which a woman carries a fish, and a final gesture of burial in which the fish has become soil. These acts form a cyclical rite of care, proposing forms of nurturing and continuity beyond biological motherhood, toward shared responsibility and collective becoming.