Xinan Helen Ran: Point and Click centers on the trackball — the rubber-coated steel sphere inside early computer mice that translated physical motion into virtual moveme…Xinan: Point and Click centers on the trackball — the rubber-coated steel sphere inside early computer mice that translated physical motion into virtual movement, one of the last interfaces where this transformation remained visible and tangible. Collected online as "transitional fossils," the disembodied spheres resurface as uncanny still life: weighted objects that once converted gesture into abstraction and the hand into signal. Through collecting, enlarging, and quilting bitmap cursor forms into physical objects, the work invites a return to touch — to feel something that no longer serves a function.
