CAN I PLANT THE FLOWERS FOR YOU

2025, Ongoing

WEB/VR/VIDEO INSTALLATION

“If I Plant the Flowers For You” is a love letter I wrote to my friends. It archives the fragments of a transitory life, explores the bittersweet nature of nomadism, and imagines a playful resistance to censorship. In the virtual space, flowers bloom forever in the 3D-scanned bedrooms of my friends, keeping our memories and conversations alive. It is my way of appreciating the beauty residing in ephemerality and under oppression...

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CANDY BOX: SOUR, SWEET, BITTER, AND SPICY

2025, Ongoing

IMMERSIVE & INTERACTIVE SPACE, VIDEO INSTALLATION

There are four essential tastes in Chinese culture: sour, sweet, bitter, and spicy. It is a poetic rendering of these four tastes and the artist's personal stories behind them.

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FRAGMENTS OF AN AFTERNOON

2024

GAME/VR/VIDEO INSTALLATION

Inspired by John Cheever’s famous short story “The Swimmer”, Fragments of an Afternoon is a VR experience unraveling the idea of trauma and how our bodies store it by drinking and desserts eating through the lens of psychoanalysis combined with Taoism. This piece serves not as an antidote, since psychoanalysis has long been claimed defunct by professional psychologists today, but as a quest for the enduring insights these theories can still offer...

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PETRICHOR

2024

IMMERSIVE & INTERACTIVE SPACE

Can people meditate in a cyber rain forest? Can this highly spiritual act be performed in a fullly digital space? Can nature be projected onto a wall? Will It lead to a dystopian future or open up a new way for spiritual growth? Petrichor is my attempt to find an answer these questions...

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