Zixi set the length to be one month, from 9/15/23 to 10/15/23. Here is the note she got: “Many things happened during this month, and I will record some typical experiences here. On 9/25/23, four of my friends invited me to order Starbucks takeout at different times on the same day because one drink wasn't enough for the minimum delivery fee. On 9/27/23, a friend of mine noticed something strange about my behavior. She tried to get to the bottom of the reason for doing this, and asked me if I was asking for help from others, because there was no other reason to please others. On 10/9/23, I went to the beach with my friends. Because I agreed to someone else's request to look after their luggage, I have been sitting on the beach for the whole day. During this month, I became the professional garlic peeler and egg beater since people always assigned me bunches of tiny jobs.”
Zixi’s final physical installation is a small photography exhibition of her experiences. The cover image shows her mouth exposed in the burnt hole in the paper since the whole project is about saying YES. Other images show the unimportant chores she did, the drinks she couldn’t drink, the perspective she was left with on the beach, and the visualization of being questioned. The special thing she did was to let the photographic works not be presented directly but through pieces of glass. Because the results of her experiment are split. She also received some kindness while being squeezed constantly. She wanted to express the multi-faceted nature of the event through broken glass, and she thinks my audience may join in her experiment to feel the subtle emotions.