"Drip Drop" (嘀,嗒) Artwork by Liu Dao

New Media: LED, Paper on Glass, Wood.

Technology has made it very easy for man to predict many things, well in advance of their happening, and with great accuracy. The one thing we can’t seem to predict is where we’ll end up and why and how we’ll get there. Detailed 10-day weather forecasts are a part of our daily routines, rare astronomical phenomenon can be placed on our calendars years prior to their occurrence, and financial approximations and models dictate modern economies. Yet, try as we might to rationalize and orchestrate, our own lives are completely unmanageable in this regard. Therein lies the rub of what makes life simultaneously interesting and scary. Even though we may strive to know what will come next, whether planning our careers or mapping out our social lives, chaos and happenstance are unyielding participants in the reality of human experience.