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Today’s featured work, [Cold Statues, Warm Breaths], was created by modernizing the paradox of the Pygmalion myth and incorporating Jean Baudrillard’s concept of "Simulacra." In Ovid’s myth, Pygmalion falls so deeply in love with his own creation that he prays for it to be brought to life—symbolizing the fundamental creative desire of an artist pursuing perfect beauty. This project portrays a subject who "simulacrizes" herself into a perfect work of art within the prison of a museum filled with white marble statues, constructing her own ideal world.
The marble statues in the video symbolize eternal, unchanging beauty, while the Muse walking among them embodies the "finite moment" that challenges that eternity. Her gestures of caressing a delicate doll or posing in classical attire show that she is not merely a beautiful model, but an artist striving for perfection, as well as the subject of the artwork itself. The fact that she is caressing not a doll, but her own reflection—and trapping herself within that subject—speaks to the most primordial creative desire of humanity to pursue perfection.
The line "Cold Statues, Warm Breaths!" in the lyrics sings of the essence of art, where eternal beauty and finite life collide and reconcile. Furthermore, the declaration "I’m real tonight" reflects the designer's will to intensely prove her existence in a place where the boundary between reality and illusion has dissolved.
A time when the longing for perfection molds you into a work of art. Following the gaze of the designer who breathes her own warmth into the frozen time of the statues, I hope you enjoy a time of pleasant contemplation as you transfigure your own daily life into art.

Original Audio-Visual Project by Acity
Directed & Edited by Acity
Music: Produced by Acityartmedia
Lyricist: Acity

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Transcript
00:05I scooped my own shadow Inside the quiet gloom
00:16Always frozen in silent White grays, cold statues
00:21Standing in eternal space Through the quiet
00:27Where time stays still The footsteps echoing at my own will
00:33Rushing past smooth marble skin so pristine Am I breathing alive or trapped in the sea?
00:45Drown on the marble, a flawless line Where life and stillness align in time
00:53Bursting through cold space and icy shines Perfected art is solely mine
01:01I am the creator and the illusion
01:05Cold statues, warm breaths Sculpting the shadow, frozen in the frame
01:12A simulator created in vain
01:16Trapped in my own life
01:22Cold statues, warm breaths Sculpting the shadow, I'm real tonight
01:33I'm real tonight
01:38Hands carving perfection to match my desire Eyes locked on the mirror, caught in the fire
01:47Are you watching on flesh in a passing state Or a picture frozen in a gallery's face?
01:56Inside this prison of art I designed I live at the sleekest solitude of my mind
02:07Drawn on the marble, a flawless line Where life and stillness align in time
02:16Bursting through cold space and icy shine This perfected art is solely mine
02:24I am the creator and the illusion
02:28Cold statues, warm breaths Sculpting the shadow, frozen in the frame
02:34A simulator created in vain
02:38Trapped in my own name
02:44Cold statues, warm breaths Sculpting the shadow, I'm real tonight
02:55I'm real tonight
03:00I'm real tonight
03:01Flawless eternity Carved by my hand
03:08This warmth belongs to me Where I stand
03:14Shh, touch the marble
03:17Cold statues, warm breaths Sculpting the shadow, I'm real tonight
03:22Sculpting the shadow
03:22Frozen in the shadow Frozen in the frame
03:25Frozen in the frame
03:25A simulator created in vain
03:30Trapped in my own name
03:32Cold statues, warm breaths Sculpting the shadow, I'm real tonight
03:46Sculpting the shadow, I'm real tonight
04:03Won't rest in cold eternity

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