Night-Flight 1086
Quhan He
Night-Flight 1086 draws on my extensive journal archive to chronicle memories of dreams and life experiences from my childhood. Alongside chapters collecting family snapshots and texts, I interspersed fabric pages representing the pillowcases of my youth. These textile dividers function as soft boundaries of the unconscious—portals through which dreams take form.
Through this work, I recount symbols, arrange sequences, and reconstruct emotional textures to revisit each stage of my life. My dream journals act as prompts for a “reading-and-writing-along” process. Rather than demanding comprehension, the book gradually guides readers into a dreamlike state through touch and unexpected references. Within the fragments of another’s experience, viewers do not decode fixed memories but instead activate their own associations and sensations. In this way, the work investigates how memory exists simultaneously across material and subconscious dimensions, transforming “recording” into a sensory encounter that unfolds involuntarily.