Graduation project
Look Up with Me
Linting Min
A ceiling’s ventilation duct shown from the perspective of a hospital bed explores the paranoia caused by being objectified by the medical system.
Look Up With Me explores the paranoia-inducing experience of the medical gaze through the boundary-blurring nature of ventilation ducts. From the viewpoint of a patient in a hospital bed, the ventilation duct takes on a life of its own, twisting, detaching, and exhibiting agency. It mirrors the inner experience of a person who the medical gaze objectifies as a diseased body. Faint voices leak from within the duct, gossiping about an unknown ‘she’. Paranoia becomes a source of validation, accommodating the fragile and frightened existence of a body owner and assuming an alternate, imperceptible interiority spared from medical intrusion. No entrance allowed.