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Ascension

One after another, different beings pass across the steps: animals, children, adults, workers, couples, and elders. From below, the transparent staircase appears as a shared path suspended against the sky. Through repetition and variation, the work reflects on the invisible structures that shape existence. The staircase operates simultaneously as architecture and metaphor—an upward passage briefly inhabited by many lives, yet possessed by none.

© 2026 by Zhiyun Lei.

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