During the processes, the will to forget unwanted memories is transformed into the power of imprinting, and tension lies between the "FORGOT" as both textual erasure and physical trace. The will to erase traces ironically deepens it instead, mirroring the experience that attempting to forget unwanted memories intensifies them. The absurdity experienced during interaction exposes human will to a greater context of time and gravity, revealing the impossibility of forgetting and illuminating the interconnectedness of traces and time, anti-traces and gravity.
In the first version, "Forgot" was imprinted on the bread piece and clay piece at the same time, forming two indications of the possibility of active forgetting: eating the bread with “FORGOT” on it is a wish to partake forgetfulness as a rural, while the “FORGOT” left on clay piece is fixed. Although the clay pieces themselves may dry and shatter naturally with the disappearance of the trace “FORGOT”, the fact that can’t be erased is that it is the will to forget that creates the trace. Disappearance and traces are stacked at different levels on the clay piece.
The main problem I was tackling was how to leave a trace of “forgot” which to a certain extent constitutes a dialogue with my topic itself: trying to forget is the exploration of the possibility of erasing traces. Therefore, I explore the possibility of semantic interpretation of erasing traces in a practical way of making traces. The traces left on different materials by different hitting materials vary in depth and clarity. During the experiments, I continued to perceive gravity through traces as the traces in my installation are made by gravity, which means that trying to erase traces is fighting against gravity, which is doomed to be a failure. Corresponding to the forgetting issue, the attempt to erase memory and forget builds the confrontation with the weight of memory which constructs the dilemma of the will in active forgetting. In both versions, a tension in “FORGOT” between its textual meaning as erasure and its physical attribute as traces is constructed.