Smoke gets in your eye – the method as a ghost: fragments on reconstruction
by Tianyi Zheng
“From your voice, I gradually piece together those things that no longer exist—what should have happened but never did, the chaotic, the lost, the no longer possible. Ghostly remnants. I wander endlessly around the room, perhaps hoping that through this painstaking arrangement, I might see ‘you’ again. Some letters you sent her, diaries, tapes, and…”
“从你的声音里，逐渐瓶凑那些不再存在的，本应发生但未曾发生的、错乱的、失落的、不再可能的。幽灵般的残余物。我在房间内不断徘徊，也许是为了通过费力的整理，我能再次看见‘你’。 一些你寄给她的信件、日记、录音带，以及…”
Information:
– 100mmx140mm
– 14 pages
– printed in 2025
“Smoke Gets in Your Eye” recreates, in Hong Kong, a living room from memory—one from The Hague. A room suspended between presence and disappearance. This little book attempts, through text and images, to capture, recall, and document fragments of the project. At the same time, it is a narrative experiment wandering between reality and fiction—when ‘you’ leaf through ‘my’ past, has the future already arrived?”
《幽烟与窄窗》以总体装置（total installation）的形式在香港重现了记忆中海牙的客厅。一个介乎存在与消逝之间的房间。这本小书试图以文字与影像去捕捉/回忆/记录计划的碎片，同时是一个游走现实与虚构的叙事实验——当‘你’翻阅‘我’的过去，未来是否已经抵达？
