Meteor Sonata is a video installation composed of six interconnected and synchronized screens. It was created by cutting and photographing nearly one thousand segments of a dead tree’s trunks and branches, taken between every two adjacent nodes. These photographic sequences were then edited into nearly one thousand animated images. All of the cross-sectional images originate from a single complete dead tree. During its growth, the tree continuously produced branches, with countless nodes that gradually diminished in size.

This dead tree metaphorically embodies the life cycle of a living organism—birth, development, growth, aging, and death—always rooted in the individual. Each node becomes a crossroads of countless choices in the course of life. Between every two nodes, the tree segment and its cross-section record a fragment of time, forming unique slices of life. The traces of life—the growth rings—quietly adhere to each cross-section.

Perhaps, from this perspective, the sequence of these cross-sections reveals a being that is both concrete and transient: a life form whose existence is specific, yet fleeting.