时间鸿爪雪泥录像录像装置文明与本能身体
精神的三种状态是佛教所称的“诸行无常”、“诸法无我”和“涅磐寂静”，由躺在三张钢丝床上的三个监视器画面直接承担，：
左边是一组日常生活小景，器物和人物形象的断片式的组合，触目可见平凡之极的事物随着不断响起和褪去的钟声而显现和消隐，透露出盛衰相袭的感伤。中间是无数京剧脸谱形象的高速切换，观众的视觉无法在任何一种形相上确定下来。右首则是一个具有明显的超越性隐喻的隧道的负像画面，伴随着藏传佛教的经咒声把精神引向一种沉寂的冥思高度。这三组病床上的画面以直接命名的方式对位于感知、认识和想象的三种精神状态，病床的意象则是由床头的输液瓶架来给出的。
守灵者是每个床头的监视器画面：一只持笔的手以各种节奏画出脑电图波状线，不时地被各种关于脑死亡概念的定义性文字所插入。
与对精神的人文主义的描述相对，守灵者试图从物理的、生理的角度来定义人及其精神，二者之间由此构成一种戏剧性的张力。
Coffin vigil and the three states of spirits 1998
The three states of spirits are uncertainty, nonexistence, nirvana according to Buddhism, which will be assumed by the showings of three monitors put on the bed of steel wires:
The screen on the left shows the scene of everyday life combined with fragments of daily apparatus and human images. Trivial and common things appear and disappear with the echo and wane of the bell to express the sentiment of ups and downs. In the middle, numerous makeup faces of Beijing Opera flashes with such a high speed that audiences can never be fixed on any of the images. To the right, negative pictures of a tunnel with distinct metaphor show up and the spirits are led to the drowsy contemplation with the patters of Tibetan Buddhism. The three groups of pictures on the sickbeds represent the three spiritual states of apperception, cognition and imagination with direct denomination., while the imago of sickbeds is shown by the transfusion bottles hanging on the head of the beds.
the coffin vigil is the pictures shown on the monitor screen beside every bed: an hand drawing the curves of an electroencephalogram with a pen and various definitions of brain death inserted constantly.
Compared with the humanism descriptions of spirits, the coffin vigil is trying to define human and spirits from the physical and physiological point of view. Thus the combination of the two reflects a dramatic strain.