I focus on dismissive gesture using three first-person pronouns in my spoken language. Through this observation, I attempt to express the sense of losing the definition from each pronoun. However, I also show how much the definition remains through this investigation. I consider the definition of each pronoun as an identity and characteristic of a person. The installation work, Wave: Atashi, Watashi and I, I create three sets of remnants from investigations for each pronoun: a glass sheet, a cumulative photograph and an MDF board I used for the processes.

Glass is the receiver that captures the transformation of sound waves, it captures the shape of waves getting loosened up by glass’s heat. During the process in hotshop, the burned MDF cutout is photographed with a black background each time I push them against hot glass, to visualize how much they were destroyed by the heat of the glass. Although each MDF board loses the details of each sound wave, the base and some flow of the waves remain. The MDF board from Wave “Atashi” and Wave “Watashi” turned out pretty similar shape after being burned out, the result makes me to think about the roots of my identity through these pronouns.