MA DESIGN






EXPANDED PRACTICE    

The Timing 
                        
Ruiyi Xu
@oohunhan7949

The bathroom is where memories and hallucinations interrupt me most often.
The scent of boiled oranges is the key trigger for these moments — my personal “perfect timing.”
This work reconstructs the bathroom as it appeared in those interruptions:
the pale light through the window, the lingering humidity, and the sudden pause of memory.
A two-channel video presents two parallel timelines —
the reality of showering and the repeated act of boiling oranges that returns in my mind.
Together, they reveal the ongoing intrusion of involuntary memory, a cycle that feels impossible to stop.