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正在期待新桃花
Where We Drift Until the Sea Forgets Us我們漂流，直到海洋遺忘我們
Where We Drift Until the Sea Forgets Us is a hand-drawn animation that unfolds as a fluid and continuously shifting marine landscape. Created through layers of pencil, charcoal, and pastel, the work depicts schools of fish, underwater forms, and drifting sea creatures that emerge and dissolve across the screen in rhythmic currents of movement. Images fade into one another without clear beginning or conclusion, producing the sensation of an ecosystem in perpetual motion, where bodies and environments remain inseparable from the tides that carry them.
Throughout the animation, a persistent rippling effect destabilises fixed forms, causing the oceanic space to feel both material and dreamlike. Creatures appear only temporarily before dissolving back into abstraction, suggesting an environment shaped less by stable geography than by memory, perception, and emotional drift. Accompanying the imagery is a slow, droning synthesised soundscape that moves between atmospheric ambience and tonal instability. Its elongated frequencies and occasional percussive interruptions mirror the animation’s fluctuating rhythms, evoking both calm suspension and underlying tension.
The work reflects Lee’s ongoing interest in ‘topophilia,’ a term coined in 1947 by poet W. H. Auden and popularized by geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, it blends our cultural identity with our surroundings, approaching place not as a static location but as something continuously reconstructed through sensation, movement, and attachment. Here, the sea becomes a metaphorical and psychological space where histories, emotions, and urban memory dissolve into flowing visual fragments. Rather than presenting the ocean as a site of escape, the animation proposes it as a shifting terrain of uncertainty and belonging, where identity itself remains in a constant state of drift and transformation.
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)Where Sight Sinks into Starlit Eyes把我的眼睛沉入你的眼睛
Inspired by Adonis's poem "Between Your Eyes and Mine", Florence Yuk-ki Lee transforms the line "When I drown my eyes in your eyes, I glimpse the deepest dawning" into a visual narrative that contemplates the emotional, mnemonic, and sensory dimensions of flight.
The work, presented as a form of an animated installation modeled after an airplane cabin window, places viewers in a passenger position. Looking out through a first-person perspective, the animation traces the ascent into the sky, passing through layers of clouds, gliding above a flickering cityscape, and finally touching down in an unfamiliar destination. For LEE, the act of seeing in flight becomes a state of suspended contemplation: Where are we headed? The eye staring out the window simultaneously looks inward, recalling memories and sensing a future yet to be named.
Set against the context of the airport, a space of perpetual movement and waiting, the "eye" becomes an interface where space, time, and distance converge. What one sees from high above is not just a landscape, but the emotional distances extended and held in suspension. LEE reveals flight as a "gaze in motion": a perceptual practice of hovering between looking, encountering, and weightlessness.
Sprout beneath my skin - After Dark I
在我的皮膚底下發芽 - 夜幕之後 I
2024
Acrylic bubbled window, bouncy balls, plastic toys, LED-light strip
53 cm (Radius), 20 cm (Depth)
Sprout beneath my skin - After Dark II
在我的皮膚底下發芽 - 夜幕之後 II
2024
Acrylic bubbled window, bouncy balls, plastic toys, LED-light strip
53 cm (Radius), 20 cm (Depth)
Sprout beneath my skin - After Dark III
在我的皮膚底下發芽 - 夜幕之後 III
2026
Acrylic bubbled window, bouncy balls,
plastic toys, LED-light strip, wired glass,
pastel and charcoal on paper
110 x 70 x 25 cm
Where We Drift and the Currents Fall Silent
我們漂流，直到海不再回應
2025
Charcoal on paper
100 × 70 cm / 110 × 80 cm (framed)
Where sight sinks into starlit eyes - 02'24"
把我的眼睛沉入你的眼睛 - 02'24"
2026
Archival Giclée print on Hahnemühle
German Etching paper
91 × 26.9 cm / 100 × 37 cm (framed)
Crystals of Memories: A Shape of Home
彈彈波之家
2026
Archival Giclée print on
Hahnemühle German Etching paper
44.5 × 34.5 cm / 40 × 50 cm (framed)
You build a home in my heart
心之所
2026
Archival Giclée print on Hahnemühle
German Etching paper
30.5 × 40 cm / 40 × 50 cm (framed)
In the forest of heart
在心的森林裡
2026
Archival Giclée print on Hahnemühle
German Etching paper
30.5 × 40 cm / 40 × 50 cm (framed)
Where sight sinks into starlit eyes - 02'30"
把我的眼睛沉入你的眼睛 - 02'30"
2026
Archival Giclée print on Hahnemühle
German Etching paper
36 × 24.7 cm / 42 × 30 cm (framed)
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Where sight sinks into starlit eyes - 02'29"
把我的眼睛沉入你的眼睛 - 02'29"
2026
Archival Giclée print on Hahnemühle
German Etching paper
36 × 24.7 cm / 42 × 30 cm (framed)
Where sight sinks into starlit eyes - 02'31"
把我的眼睛沉入你的眼睛 - 02'31"
2026
Archival Giclée print on Hahnemühle
German Etching paper
36 × 24.7 cm / 42 × 30 cm (framed)
Where We Drift Until the Sea Forgets Us - Visual Script
我們漂流，直到海洋遺忘我們 -
視覺劇本
2025
Charcoal and oil pastel on paper
100 × 70 cm / 110 × 80 cm (framed)
Where We Drift Toward the Calling Tide
魔笛手的召喚沒有回聲，只有流向
2026
Charcoal, pitt pastel and oil pastel on paper
65 × 50 cm / 75 × 60 cm (framed)
Where We Drift Beyond All Return
魚群回到未被命名的水
2026
Charcoal, pitt pastel and oil pastel on paper
65 × 50 cm / 75 × 60 cm (framed)
Plastic Heart I
塑膠之心 I
2024
Street lamp, bouncy balls
Dimensions variable
Save the Last Dance for Us
留著那夜
2025
Animated Short Film
Directed and Animated by:
Florence Yuk-ki Lee
Additional Animation:
Wong Weng Chon
Produced and Written by:
Hou Lam Tsui
Music and Sound by:
Sky Kung @ Black Sea Studio
Production:
Moonshiners Studio
ert
I Stole a Bag of Seeds
偷來的一袋希望
2026
Silent Book
Published by Chunghwa Book
ISBN: 978-988-8958-65-8
正在期待新桃花
You build a home in my mind
心之房
Translating and encapsulating the artist's personal childhood experiences as well as past lived experiences, “You build a home in my mind” explores themes of memory, loss, and resilience. It comprises of objects from childhood and special objects recalled from memories—weaving together a melody that lures the viewers to roam and wander. The animated imagery of Hong Kong's cityscape symbolizes the fleeting nature of life and the emotional weight they carry. By weaving together nostalgic objects and fragmented memories, the work invites viewers on a journey that mirrors their own searches for meaning in a world marked by uncertainty and change.
Albireo I
The inspiration for this streetlight installation originated from a project with the Association Concerning Sexual Violence Against Women in Hong Kong, as well as conversations with sexual violence survivors. The radiant warmth emanating from the love and support within the sexual violence survivor community served as inspiration for Lee to create this installation as a response. The glowing streetlight symbolises love, protection and support, guiding individuals through lonely and dark paths.
Single-channel video
Dimensions variable; 2min. 20 sec.
Albireo II
2024
Installation
Street lamps, bouncy balls, polyethylene toys, light strips
Dimensions variable
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Albireo III
2024
Installation
Street lamps, bouncy balls, polyethylene toys, light strips
Dimensions variable
Albireo IV
2024
Installation
Street lamps, bouncy balls, polyethylene toys, light strips
Dimensions variable
Plastic Heart I
2024
Installation
Street lamp, bouncy balls
Dimensions variable
Plastic Heart III
2024
Installation
Street lamps, polyethylene toys
Dimensions variable
You build a home in my mind: the pilot
2023
Archival Giclée print on Hahnemühle German Etching paper
35 x 45 cm; 40 x 50 cm (with frame)
Edition of 5 + 2 AP
Merry-go-round like a lullaby: melting blaze
2023
Archival Giclée print on Hahnemühle German Etching paper
35 x 45 cm; 40 x 50 cm (with frame)
Edition of 5 + 2 AP
A fading dream that leaves me: cold shoulder
2023
Archival Giclée print on Hahnemühle German Etching paper
35 x 45 cm; 40 x 50 cm (with frame)
Edition of 5 + 2 AP
‘Park Voyage’ series
2024
Three-channel animation installation
on infinite loop (color, no sound)
0’10”
You built a home in my heart
心之所
2024
Animated Short Film
Directed and Animated by
Florence Yuk-ki Lee
Music and Sound by
Just Bee
Animation Assistants
Scarlett Ty
Cyrus Leung cyncope.virus
Hazel Tsang Lai Mei
Sound Recording Assistant
Waleed Waseem
Special Thanks
Tsui Hou Lam
Park Voyage
遊．樂．園
2022
Animation Series
Directed and Animated by
Florence Yuk-ki Lee
Music and Sound by
Just Bee
Commissioned by
M+
Elephant in Castle
城堡裡的大象
2021
Animated Short Film
Directed and Animated by:
Florence Yuk-ki Lee
Music Composed by:
Just Bee
Sound Designed by:
Florence Xingyu Tan
Additional Animation:
Tina Bahraei
Additional Compositing:
Di Wu
Production:
No Reason Studio
Advisor:
Max Hattler
Special Thanks:
Harald Kraemer, Leung Chi Wo, Tobias Klein, Yu Ka Ho Albert
Lensless
2015
Analog Animation / Direct Animation
Hand painted and scratched directly on 16mm film stock