Soft Subversion Object No.1 is a handcrafted "hot tub" filled with plastic ocean balls, installed as a public facility in the atrium outside the Royal College of Art's graduation exhibition space. Its core mechanism lies in the intervention of the "Soft Subversion Object" itself, connecting the inside and outside of the "hot tub" into a unified field. It serves as a container, generator, and anchor point for the events and memories produced in its temporal and spatial context, continuously exerting gentle influences along future timelines.

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What Soft Subversion Object No.1 seeks to subvert is not a specific event or object, but rather an overall perception of our experience of the world—a perceivable interwoven emotion composed of widespread tension, isolation, separation, conflict, avoidance, and misunderstanding. These elements could potentially lead our lived world's micro and macro aspects to slide into an abyss. As an implant capable of seamlessly integrating into the fabric of the social system, it becomes a latent centre of the field on a micro level. Through its accessible usage and comfortable experience, it fosters connections between individuals and sparks collisions of thoughts and consciousness. These connections' unconscious and random effects ripple outward into the texture of life as people come and go.

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This subversion is not immediate; it is latent, soft, and enduring, yet it may ultimately prove to be truly effective.