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Today’s featured work, [Echoes in Gloss], was written based on the core theories of the master of modern postmodern philosophy, Jean Baudrillard: "Simulation" and "Hyperreality." Baudrillard argued that contemporary society is filled with copies of "Simulacra," where the original is lost and the fake feels more real than reality itself. This project visualizes a subject who traps herself within a perfect image, set against the backdrop of a penthouse decorated with the most sophisticated and glamorous signs of success.
The line "Voice trapped inside the silver reflection on the wall" in the lyrics sings of the isolation of modern individuals who lose their true voices as they are encroached upon by imagery. Furthermore, the declaration "Chilling emptiness behind a curated smile" reflects the existential void lurking behind a perfectly designed persona.
Is the self reflected in the mirror real, or is it a perfectly designed image? Following the gaze of the designer who has turned herself into a sign within this perfectly exhibited solitude, I hope you enjoy a time of pleasant contemplation as you look beyond the forest of imagery to face your true reality.

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

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Transcript
00:07Mirror breathing in the silver light
00:14Chasing the shadows of a quiet night
00:23Slight tremble hidden underneath the safe design
00:28Standing at the mirror just to fix the outer line
00:32High above the city where the neon rivers gleam
00:36Playing out the idol in an engineered dream called
00:41Crystal surface underneath my fingertips
00:44Once long forgotten from the laughter on my lips
00:48Becoming the sculpture that they wanted me to be
00:52Fading to a shadow of the real version of me
00:56Inside the silence of this solitary space
01:01Echoes of my breathing are the only truth I trace
01:05Echoes and glow
01:06Poison trapped inside the silver reflection
01:10I'm a ghost in a phantom world
01:16Watching shadows fall
01:21Echoes and glow
01:22Such an emptiness behind a curated smile
01:27Holding my breath in this cage for a while
01:38Holding my breath in this cage for a while
01:40Holding my breath in this cage for a while
01:42Holding my breath in this cage for a while
01:46Carving all my angles just to fit into this
01:49I survived in 30 hours with the composure
01:53Tied door locked behind me
01:55Open house lights going low
01:56Not a sanctuary just a maze I used to know
01:58Staring at the stranger in the glass across the room
02:00Closing my eyes to ignore the quiet room
02:03Become the sculpture that they wanted me to be
02:06Fading to a shadow of the real version of me
02:10Inside the silence of this solitary space
02:15Echoes of my breathing are the only truth I trace
02:18Echoes of my breathing are the only truth I'm a ghost in a phantom world
02:30Watching shadows fall
02:35Echoes and glow
02:36Such an emptiness behind a curated smile
02:41Holding my breath in this cage for a while
02:51No one's inside this paradise I made
02:55Looking at the stranger in the glass as colors fade
02:59Where is the real me?
03:01Behind the glossy barrier
03:07Echoes and glow
03:09For the trapped inside the silver reflection on the wall
03:14There's no ghost in a phantom world
03:19Touching shadows fall
03:21Paige and glow
03:24Col immigrant
03:26сĐČДт odai
03:26Cityæ¶Č
03:28Into a spirit
03:30ë“±ëĄ
03:30Off theilde
03:31noticeable
03:31Story
03:33Inside the silence of the solitary spirit
03:37Echoes from your breathing are the only truth that trace
03:41And goes in glass
03:42Voice trapped inside the silver reflection on the wall
03:47Lost, lost in a phantom world
03:52Watching shadows fall
03:57Echoes in glass
03:58Chilling, ending behind the curate
04:02Smile while the holes in my breath in this cage
04:08Watch for the light
04:13The lies inside this paradise
04:16I never hear you
04:18Can't be a stranger in the glass
04:20It's called his melody
04:21Where is the real me?
04:24Behind the glossy period
04:30Echoes in glass
04:38Echoes in glass
04:39Echoes in glass
04:40Echoes in glass
04:40Echoes in glass
04:41Echoes in glass
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