Zhiyi Jin

In today’s culture of acceleration, we compress time through speed, yet fall into the same predicament revealed by the fable Catching the Moon in Water: a collective pursuit of shimmering illusions that leads to alienated perception and inner exhaustion.

This project seeks to resist the linear discipline of time. It arises from an everyday realization: no matter how fast the world turns, we cannot drink water at double speed. We can only take it in, sip by sip, allowing the body vessel to receive time. Thus, the shift from catching to drinking becomes a perceptual fissure uncolonized by acceleration, a small ritual that reclaims bodily awareness and the present moment.

Rather than critiquing the measurement of time, the project opens a gateway toward a deeper, fluid, and nonlinear consciousness.