Heart of Glass

Created over a span of three years, INTO AIR continues Ng’s preoccupation with time and her attempts to capture and convey its emotional tenor and elasticity, as opposed to the cold and factual progression of numerals commonly used to tell and record time. As described by the artist, time speeds up when we have fun; slows down while we wait; and stands still when we fall in love. In three distinct bodies of work, Ng explores how time can be documented and manipulated. The series is a ‘cycle’, charting the lifespan of a block of frozen pigments as it is exposed to the elements, melts, and then returns to air. The works are all traces and residues of each block’s existence and record the movement of its states from solid to liquid, and eventually to air: from weight to lightness, monumentality to nothingness.