Is all creativity an irrational voyage? I created an onomatopoeia world where I defined an ingredient as a word; therefore, the dish I cooked became a sentence. The sculpture I made is the written words that randomly pair up with one ingredient. The babbling voices of my niece become the pronunciation of this language. With this setting, I made a simple dictionary and language tutorial (in Part I); you can see how the logic in Onomatopoeia works, but all the idiosyncratic connections don’t make sense in reality.

In video two (Part II), I spoke by cooking the sculptures, which is the way of talking in the Onomatopoeia world. I harvested them, took them from the refrigerator, cut them, and cooked them. It is a reenactment of my living traces in the Netherlands. The background broadcasting is the interview of patients with schizophrenia. I was confused if they were talking about schizophrenia or the artists when they described the symptoms of schizophrenia.

Is art one of the forms that can contain people’s madness since they cannot find relief in their reality? “Men are so necessarily mad that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.” ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées.