Time Bicycle

This piece was inspired by one of my favorite artists, Marcel Duchamp, and his work Bicycle Wheel.
After the pandemic, I was struck by how swiftly time passes. How a human life, no matter how full, is only a brief century. Each person can be both tiny and immense in their own way. But when we focus on one individual, what have they truly experienced?
Through this work, I wanted to explore how people transform through different stages of life — how these phases can be simple, repetitive, and yet uniquely human. The turning wheel becomes a metaphor for the constant motion of time, endlessly rotating like the gears of life itself.
At first glance, the piece may seem ordinary, much like some of Duchamp’s works, which appear “meaningless” on the surface. Yet meaning always lies in the eye of the audience. Every person who stands before it may see something different: a reflection on the past, a hope for the future, or perhaps a quiet sense of melancholy.