Fate “缘”

“缘起，我在人群中看到你；缘尽，我看到你在人群中。”

This piece is a meditation on the silent mechanics of fate — how love often carries the seeds of its own parting from the moment it begins.

At the center, two lovers hold each other in a fading embrace. One figure is beginning to dissolve, as if the memory of her is being slowly erased by time. Above them, a reversed clock loops backward — suggesting not progress, but inevitability. That this ending was always there, waiting to be fulfilled.

Beneath them lies a small cat — a remnant of shared life. It stays even as everything else slips away. A quiet witness to the story, and perhaps the only one who remembers.

But what’s most haunting lies just outside the light:

In the darkness beyond the spotlight, dozens more are embracing.

They are shadows, outlines, quiet silhouettes — other stories unfolding at the same time. They too are caught in the beautiful beginning of something already doomed. This is not one story. It is a cycle.

Everyone meets.

Everyone parts.

And perhaps, all beginnings are just quiet rehearsals for the end.