Me Whee explores the problems of identity through studying the bonds and barriers between people that either separate or draw them together. The complexity of character and its effect on relationships or vice versa exhibited through 3 Chinese words – 闷(shut), 门(door), 们(us) – and the act of playing with the box that simultaneously assembles and dissembles the words. 

 

The cube is an interactive sculpture that allows the audiences to engage alone or with another party. Upon interaction, the sculpture reveals the words 闷, 门, and 们, in respective order or reverse order, representing how one's relationships with others foster and fade over his/her lifetime. In the video, the sculpture uphill climb expresses the politics of relationships that one has to navigate through his or her life. Hefty design of the sculpture is to encourage interaction between audiences by moving the cube together. Its objective is to create opportunities for a new friendship. The audiences' decision to pick up or abandon this opportunity metaphorically highlights how like other opportunities in life, the audiences' actions and reactions to it relates to their identities, such as their personality, gender, etc.

 

Also, having created at an uncertain time, where people are more aware of being close to others physically, mentally, and socially, further accentuates the question of this work: What makes us we?