Yuen Chee Wai's work explores how image, sound, and text can occur spontaneously as symbiotic mental productions. Informed by philosophical interests, his explorations with noise are process-oriented in the sense that they sculpt both personal and public experiential terrains. He is known for his drone/ambient/field recording approaches and live performances, and the photographic elements in his installations reflect also on the theme of sound and silence as a visual lens. In encountering a surrounding soundscape, its objects and architecture, imprints of images recur on the mind's eye, almost as if in stasis. Visual/verbal patterns or perimeters, their time sequences and frequencies, become collapsible around memory and even the very attempt to recall a lost, unnamed, undeterminable subject. This thematic element of speech and silence is often communicated through the conceptual structure and time-based orientation of his performances, where sound as medium offers up a shifting vacancy, a fleeting space of invisibility in which images, along with resistive moments of distortion and clarity, dense signals, and thinning messages clash and collide--then quiet down, decay, and are gone.