At First Sight

Vincent Ip
2013

Installation: 132 coins

Please look into the box to find your value of love.

The idea here is to use “invaluable” coins to build a heart shape inside a box. The installation reflects people’s impression of love in a materialistic world, through the rationale of sight – or our priorities on what we choose to first see or don’t. If one observes the heart before the coins, could it be deemed as proof of the observer’s priorities on love and money or disregarded in reason for one’s natural reflexes of the mind?