This is a duo stop-motion animation. On the right, it shows a diminishing pastel, while the left reveals the development of a line-drawing on the landscape, simultaneously, line by line. It is based on a photo named Kwun Tong Town Centre from Wikipedia, which no longer looks the same due to urban renewal program. In this work, I restrict the role of the animator, as the length of the animation is solely based on the consumption of the pastel. It also reveals my engagement with time via the process of the consumption of the pastel.

Substances and energy are unceasingly circulating. A stop-motion animation in the virtual world is formed when the pastel in reality transformed into the scenery (Kwun Tong) on the paper, simultaneously, line by line.
The animation is the recorder as well as the carrier of the energy. I spent half a year to make this animation. Every stroke I drew, I had to record the drawing and also the pastel. I repeated around 14,000 times to finish it. I tried to highlight the process of the creation of animation and this is a long meditative process of making it happen.

〈消失之中〉為一雙視頻的定格動畫作品。右面的動畫是一枝不斷變小的粉彩畫筆，左面的動畫則看到觀塘市中心的繪線畫逐線成形，兩邊視頻同步發生。現實中，左邊視頻的動畫是由右邊視頻的畫筆繪製而成。這作品源自維基百科上一幅名為觀塘市中心的的照片，但現實中的觀塘因著市區重建經已面目全非。創作時藝術家限制了其動畫師的角色，因為動畫的長度完全受制於粉彩畫筆的消耗，而透過其消耗過程亦反映我投放的時間。  

物質與能量永無休止地流傳。當現實世界的粉彩畫筆轉化成紙上的景色（觀塘），逐線成形、同步發生之際，便構成了虛擬世界裡的定格動畫。動畫作品記錄和盛載著能量。藝術家花了半年時間創作這部動畫。她畫的每一筆，都需要記錄圖畫和畫筆變化，總共重複了14,000次才完成。藝術家嘗試凸顯動畫的創作過程，這個作品能夠成事其實也是一個漫長的思考過程。

Born in Hong Kong in 1991, Jess gained her BA (Honours) in Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong in 2014. Jess’ work applies themes such as narrative fragments, body memory and focus on iterative manual processes and the aggregation of time. Jess’ work involves a wide range of media – videos, animation, installation – it explores the uniqueness and the malleability of each different medium, for example, outlining the fiction and reality with stop-motion animation. Her iconic works are created through the accumulation of labour and time. The material is constantly reorganised, shaped and dismantled in the world of video, connecting and extending with the memory and imagination of the city as well as the individual self. At the same time, her works aim to break the cold impression of media art, to portray the temperature of people, the traces left by her body, and to emphasise the process of creation and imaging. 

Jess’ artworks have been exhibited and screened internationally in: Ars Electronica, Austria, Animatou – International Animation Film Festival, Switzerland, Image Forum Festival 2022, Japan, Two Temple Place, London, IFVA Media Art Festival, Hong Kong, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, West Kowloon FreeSpace, Hong Kong and etc. Jess was the selected artist of Tai Kwun Contemporary Artists’ Studio Residency 2020 and awarded the Nanying Prize from Taiwan 2022.