“回” (meaning “return” or “go back”) serves as my response to the paradoxical cycle of conditioning and deconditioning that fills our daily lives. Inspired by a friend’s journey of relearning to walk after an injury, this installation reflects on the repetitive maintenance required to sustain our habitual behaviors.

The work unfolds across three distinct spaces, each representing a stage in this cyclical process: an external reality of conditioning, an actively dissolving in-between, and a shower-like personal space. “回” symbolizes a return to a place never truly left, embodying the continuous loop where attempts to decondition inevitably create new conditions. Perhaps the most authentic state of being does not lie in achieving a fixed state, but in the process of seeking itself. It is in this processing in-between, where we are neither fully conditioned nor deconditioned, that we find ourselves most present and aware.

Rosaline Duo is a student pursuing a BA in Art in Interdisciplinary Visual Art (IVA) and is part of the art honors program.