For this piece, we were asked to create an artwork about cells and something about us. It is not supposed to convey a single predefined message but is also not a piece that does not carry any message at all. Anyone who sees the work is supposed to perceive a different message. Admittedly, this ambiguity was difficult to express.

We tend to work with our hands instinctively during production, and we often have some ideas about the aim or what the finished work should look like before we start. However, this time, we were searching endlessly for a solution to the conundrum while knowing that there was no right answer. Ultimately, completing this work felt like a blur, both in good and bad ways.

We are situated in the middle, holding tightly to our cells, or perhaps, to a light. Everyone is made up of a collection of cells, yet none of us have total control over them.

As a result, this work came to include some cosmic imagery. In the same way that we, in our daily lives, are not very conscious of the fact that we are living in an endlessly expanding universe, we rarely wonder about how cells work and how we will handle them in the future. When framed in this perspective, the universe and cells are somehow connected.

As creators of this artwork, we recognize that it is in our nature to feel anxious and uneasy when confronting the unknown and the unfamiliar. However, our message is that in the face of the unknown and the unfamiliar, we should hold on tightly to the cores that make each of us unique and face change without fear or being swept away by it.

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