My video work Reading investigates the meaning and concept of reading and looking when perceiving a work. The opposition between looking and reading apparently correlate by distinguishing image from word, and art from literature.

Neurological studies reveal that there are classical activities in the left cerebral hemisphere in native signers like those found in hearing speakers. This suggests that the left cerebral hemisphere, which is assumed to be responsible for language, is not solely ruled by speech or phonetic writing.

This piece of work oddly presents a double level of reading – one is reading the black figure in Ameslan (space) and the other is reading the lines (time). However, as language fades out with the tiny scale of my body, it creates an experience of reading without reading. In a simialr vein, one experiences reading without reading the invisible lines.

James Elkins points that "everyday reading and everyday looking... are not pure acts... Any act of reading relies on a finite number of customs and strategies, and they are often at work in looking. The converse is also true: We look at images in various ways... those ways of looking often come into play when we read... so there is 'reading' in every image and 'looking' in every text."