Mizzonk

A belated happy New Year! To those who read this post, we wish your 2026 is a year of expansion in everything your heart chooses to take on.

Here is a piece reflecting on family, absence, and love, posted with an instrumental version of a Taiwanese folk song.

Getting older comes with many benefits that I didn’t know about. One of them is having the chance to see the past with new insight. On this note of how time creates distance and perspectives, I am reminded of something my history teacher said in high school. He said: “It takes 50 years to see the full impact of an event in history.”

What about our personal history? 50 years in a person’s life is a long time. Many people never get the chance to age. What if aging becomes a privilege of rewriting personal history? Most parts of our lives are insignificant to others and the world, but what if they hold the key to how we see and build our remaining future?

I am naturally inclined to reflect on the past which is different from being stuck in it. I see the past as a valuable and tangible resource for future growth. As much as our culture prizes external knowledge, in an AI era when no human can retain as much data and information as an AI, it seems to me that inner knowledge, inner knowing built from lived experience, deserves our collective attention more than ever.

—- Wan-Yi of Mizzonk

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We live on a hill among towering cedar trees. It is a privilege to take in the lush scene every day, and year-round, for over two decades. They grow at an immense speed, at least it seems to me, from looking at the diminishing sky over our heads.

For years, I felt things but rarely put words to them in constructive ways that could make those feelings and observations seen or heard. A bilingual brain can really mess up the communication highway sometimes. So, I gave up.

But lately, putting words to felt experiences has enlightened me. If every person’s life were like an archive in some vast Earth library, I would want my archive to be filled not only with images but with words and sounds, and everything else through my faculties.

Sharing selected animations and drawings that form the foundation of INSIGHT.
INSIGHT is a three-channel video and spatial installation by Mizzonk that examines how shifts in perception reshape our experience of work, presence, and self.

Rooted in Roger Chen’s lived experience, INSIGHT reflects broader conditions of contemporary life — the pace of work, the pressure to produce, and the ongoing search for presence in a distracted world. By slowing viewers’ attention and staging the oscillation between doing and being, the installation connects with current conversations around mindfulness, emotional health, and balance in daily life.

A sketch of what the inner world feels like to me — interwoven, messy, colourful. Its elusive nature reminds me of the northern lights seen above our sky.

Autumn, 2025.

More artifacts from the project INSIGHT.
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Artifacts in the project INSIGHT.

We are loving the super wide format of INSIGHT’s main video! But it doesn’t work on instagram.