Disappeared death, returned glasses, people who still remember, and competing gazes

The eyeglasses in front of the camera begin to bring back everyday memories about eyesight. When did their eyesight start deteriorating and how did they feel upon wearing glasses for the first time? Their conservation shifts to a pair of black horn-rimmed glasses that disappeared long ago. Thirty years ago, when the black horn-rimmed glasses emerged from the sea, they all began to perceive the world differently. Now that they are older, they cannot see the world without their glasses. Eyeglasses are uncomfortable and cumbersome sometimes. Memories fade over time, but the black horn-rimmed glasses emerge from beneath the ground after decades and ask if they are prepared to go through such difficult times again. The eyeglasses come up with their own answers.

In the summer of 2014, I made a video record of the burial site of a young man who had died 25 years before. The portrait showed a curly-haired man wearing black horn-rimmed glasses. In August 1989, he went missing and was later found dead on a remote island in the South Sea. His friends went down there the next day, but even after two months of investigation, his death remained a mystery. In the end, they buried him with his glasses that had come up to the surface of the water. Years have passed, but the shadow of the deceased still hangs over their lives like a duty. At some point, their old, wrinkled eyes and the glasses covering them caught my attention. I wanted to talk about them as well as the dead man. How did the disappearance of the black horn-rimmed glasses change the way they viewed the world?