White onions are sad, because people feel nothing about them.
Purple onions are happy, because they make people cry and that’s what onions should be.
白洋葱很伤心，因为人们对它毫无感觉。
紫洋葱很开心，因为它能把人弄哭。这是身为洋葱应该做的事。
Happy Onion Sad Onion
2022
Four-channel video (color, sound)
22’46” 13’37”
From time to time, when I overused my eyes, they became very dry and sore. One night I was laying in my bed and thinking about using onion as a stimulus to produce tears for the sake of my eyes. At first, I tried with white onion, but it didn’t make me cry. So I tried purple one for the second time, and obviously it’s spicier than the white one, but I still cut it for around 15 minutes before my tears came out. After I did this piece, I realised cutting onion may seem to be an attempt of self-repairing from our screen-based life; however, my tears were, in fact, the evidence of the harm that screen-based life has brought me.
有段时间我用眼过度之后，我的眼睛很干涩、酸痛。一天晚上我躺在床上突然想到我可以切洋葱刺激泪腺来滋润我的眼睛。我一开始试了白洋葱，但我没能哭出来。所以我又切了紫洋葱，它确实比白洋葱更辣眼睛，但我也一直切了大概15分钟后才流下眼泪。做完这件作品之后，我意识到切洋葱也许是我对我们基于屏幕的生活的一种自我修复的尝试；但实际上我的眼泪却是屏幕生活给我带来的伤害的有力证明。