I have often wondered about the countless people I pass by in the city. Where they are going and what feelings they carry through their day. On days when I’m tired, excited, or heading somewhere, I often ask myself: What about everyone else around me? What stories are they living in this same moment?

This curiosity led me to create Echoes in Three Perspectives. Every Monday at 1 PM, I returned to the same location to observe and document myself, strangers, and the place itself. Through this repetition, I hoped to encounter the difference within sameness.

Each week, I asked the same questions:

“How are you feeling today?”
“Where are you going?”

Not once did I receive the same answer from myself or from others. This revealed how distinct our emotions and directions truly are. Meanwhile, Union Square answered the second question identically each time: “Remains.” As people rushed, paused, or simply passed through, the square stayed still, quietly holding every shifting story around it.

Echoes in Three Perspectives traces how the same place, day, and time can hold three entirely different stories — mine, others’, and the city’s own. Through this process, I followed my curiosity and came to see how shared spaces collect individual experiences and how a single location can contain endless versions of the same moment.