8 Minutes From The Sun is a multi-media exhibition that combines light installation, sound, poetry and photography. The title was inspired by the time it takes for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth, rendering everything we perceive in the present from the past. Through solitary experimental play, the artist spent two years processing the personal and psychological effects due to the political upheaval in Hong Kong. The images were created by carrying a circular mirror to the same "hiding place" by the sea in search of meaning in the synchronicities of life. The photographs create an abstraction of time and place that reflect our collective psyche during a time of global uncertainty and fear.

The first room is bathed in golden light that blinks in a 4-7-8 rhythm, a breathing technique that quiets the mind in preparation for sleep. Each title of every piece strings together to form a poem which becomes the artist’s statement. The spectator’s journey comes full circle with Can You Hear My Heart Leave. The mirror, which was once the subject of the series, is entombed in black 3.0 - the darkest acrylic paint -and is transformed into a kinetic sculpture spinning in a perpetual motion. In the adjoining room, the visitor is guided through a lowered archway that mimics tunnels in a playground, prompting a ceremonial, child-like physical shift into the Temple Of The Ordinary. This installation room is built primarily with found material and houses a slowly spinning blue light on the ceiling, mirroring the negative thought loops we often feel trapped in and imprisoned by. It is accompanied by an ambient track containing field recordings taken on the artist’s last walk with her mirror before its “burial”, layered with church organs that ebb and flow through harmony and dissonance. Through sitting with their discomforts, viewers are invited to enter a state of deep contemplation and solitary play; of child-like imagination and rigorous self interrogation; exploring notions of grief, loss and the art of letting go of the pasts that haunt us in the present.