Convenience Store as Frozen Time
Archive of Cold. 01 — The temperature of a day, left behind on steel and glass. Archive of Cold. 02 — The temperature of a day, left behind on steel and glass. (Artist’s Note by Marknsol, 2025) The convenience store is another face of the ice civilization — a mirror of modern life where light never sleeps and every surface is perfectly arranged. Here, repetition becomes ritual, and stillness becomes a kind of beauty. The neon lights flicker like artificial moons, suspended between fatigue and desire. Each product glows with a strange intimacy, yet everything feels slightly distant, frozen in routine. I see this space as a living archive of disappearance — a place where warmth and coldness coexist, where the trace of human touch melts into glass, and where the ethics of slowness quietly resist the speed of capital. Every night, the store becomes an ecosystem of light and silence. Its geometry is mechanical, yet within it I sense something fragile — the echo of presence, the residue of l...
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