Future is eventually gonna become past. Past is a status that we could reflect on our selves and calibrate to the best version of us. Dear future past is what the piece focuses on. I was an international background, I was born in Asia and had the most important formative years in New York. In my language — mandarin, there we only have 3 tenses to show the time, aren’t like English there are12(!) tenses to show the chronological differences. There’s a phrase in my culture, “船過水無痕”, it literally translate to “Wherever the boat sails, it is untraceable.” I think this phrase precisely describe the past, present, and future times. Because it dose not matter whether it’s a tragic story, significant event in life, or even a severe circumstances in, it will pass, eventually; and this is what the piece what to show you. All the past will be covered by the future, and the future itself would become a part of the past, the presence of future is always contradicting.
