This project is based on a bad personal experience I had last year. At that time, I was in the stage of ADHD activation disorder, with weakened emotional perception and no interest in everything, making it difficult for me to concentrate.

Most of the time, I lie in bed and do nothing. Later, my friend forcibly took me out for a walk. I saw happy dogs, hurried pedestrians, and an old man playing saxophone on the street. I can’t say I recovered immediately, but the real impact of that moment made me feel like I was back in life.
In the end, my project developed under the title of “Breath”, using the visual language of modern graphic illustration to record and explain how to achieve emotional arousal through minimal actions and sensory triggers when in a state of fatigue or depression, and discover the hidden beauty in ordinary life – which I call “20% Micro Activation”.

What I mean by ‘20% micro start’ is not a quantitative standard, but rather a description of the moment or weak power that changes from a completely stagnant or low-energy state to the initial stage of activity: it could be a moment of sitting up from bed, opening a window, a gust of wind blowing, or the touch of an old song.

These behaviors are fragile and incomplete recoveries, like a series of tiny “breathing” fragments. “Breathing” is the simplest and most indispensable rhythm of life, often overlooked in daily life, but always maintaining the tension of existence. For people who experience long-term fatigue, and even many diagnosed with ADHD (especially executive activation disorder), recovery is not a measurable straight line. These behaviors, although small, can change an individual’s self-awareness and may trigger brief emotional reflux or physical responses, becoming the gateway to gradual recovery.

I hope to visualize these faint recovery moments, not to present the final rehabilitation narrative, but to sensitively record and magnify the details that have just begun to move, using non-linear, modular image sequences to present this micro start trajectory.