” Where are you from? “
This is probably the most common question a traveller must answer. As he experiences different lives in various lands, there may come an awakening, a realization that his home is not yet a reality. Now, isn’t that the perfect moment for him to start building his home?
White Paper
2022.11, A4 paper
A piece of architecture
2022, 2mm thickness plywood
Form Engine（4）
2022, 3D printed structures on textile
WAR
2022
MOM
2022
Travelling in Mountain
2021, digital rendering
From very early, Chinese painting artists have applied brushes with ink to describe natural landscapes such as mountains, trees, streams, etc. These narrative landscape paintings usually act as the metaphor to artists to express their philosophical understanding and perception of life. This project shows another way to create a narrative landscape by algorithm design. In the middle the single huge mountain piling up with countless voronoi-frame stones that attract viewers continuously see through the tangled caves with detailed greenery. This way of creating mountains reveals the cover among nature, mathematics and culture.
Invading Garden
2021, digital rendering
Insular-like form driven by reaction diffusion algorithm.
Self-portrait
2021, digital rendering
Form Engine (3)_asymmetric
2021, paper board, L: 40 cm
“What engines form?”
Form Engine (2)_symmetric
2021, paper board, L: 40 cm
“What engines form?”
Form Engine (1)_basic
2021, paper board/dried Japanese laquer board, L: 10 cm
“What engines form?”
Relations
2021, Oil painting stick, 24 x 33 cm
“How to describe social relations?”
Invisible Truth
2021, Chinese ink, 24 x 33 cm
“Are you hungry for truth?”
In 2020 American presidential election, historically the main stream medias lost the trust from large population. In this period, in the air flowing the smell of people hungering for truth. Countless people are believing the truth can not be covered.
Immune cell
2020, Chinese ink and pastel on paper, 33 x 24 cm
“What devours death?”
In our body, the human immune system is the most effective weapon to kill the COVID-19 virus. The immune cells are taking action to show the life devours death.
Link (3)
2020, Chinese ink and pastel on paper, 33 x 24 cm
“What is the shape could describe the people relations been in lock down period?”
Rule and Shape (2)
2020, Chinese ink and pastel on paper, 33 x 24 cm
Link (2)
2020, Chinese ink and pastel on paper, 33 x 24 cm
“What is the shape of the connection among individuals?”
Link (1)
2020, Chinese ink and pastel on paper, 33 x 24 cm
“What is the shape of the connection among individuals?”
In pandemic period most people have to stay at home. This situation draws the special connection shape from one to another.
Interaction
2020, Chinese ink and pastel on paper, 33 x 24 cm
“How God interacts with human?”
Sky
2019, oil painting stick and pastel on paper, 33 x 24 cm
“Why can’t we try?”
It was inspired by the Cantonese song of “海阔天空” by the Hong Kong band Beyond. People took this song to describe the Hongkongers’ demand for freedom in the 2019-20 Hong Kong protests. The english translation was by Daniel Pagan Murphy .
“Today I, saw the snow drift through the night. With the cold my heart and mind began to fly. I tried to find my way, the fog casts shadows on my mind but there’s a boundless world out there, for you and I. (Why can’t we try?)
Many times, I’ve faced harsh and mocking jokes. Never once did I give up my dreams and hopes. But I feel so cold, I lost my way and don’t belong. All this love inside my soul, has turned to mold. (You’re not alone)
Please forgive me but I’ll always love to chase freedom. Even though I sometimes may fall down, I’ll hold fast and strong, keep my dreams alive. In the end there’ll still be you and I.”
Neurocyte
2019, Chinese ink on paper and colour pencil, 24 x 33 cm
“How to describe social relations?”
Free
2019, Chinese ink on paper, 24 x 33 cm
“How to describe the shape of Free?”
Up!
2019, Chinese ink on paper, 24 x 33 cm
“Where am I belong to?”
Up! Go from the surroundings, the contexts, the cultures, to Up!
Encounter
2019, Chinese ink and pastel on paper, 33 x 24 cm
“Whom are we waiting for?”
Squares in black
2019, oil painting stick on paper, 40 x 30 cm
Distinction
2019, oil painting stick on paper, 40 x 30 cm
Chuppa Design
2019, built
bamboo, fabric, plywood, acry stick, wood stick
supported by Hephzibah Global Ministry
L3 x W3 x H2.3m
Rule and Shape
2018, Chinese ink and pastel on paper, 33 x 24 cm
“How to describe the relation from rule to shape?”
This series of painting by using Chinese ink. These various shape generated by certain rules, for instance, the curves turning around the colour points, brushed blocks rotated at the colour points, folding lines go across points, grid consist of different strips, etc,.
Prayer Tent
2018, built, supported by Kanada Lab in Tokyo University of Arts, and Hephzibah Global Ministry
Photograph: Gao Siwei
“What is prayer?”
Prayer is connection from temporality to eternity. This tent detailed with pegs, rope knots, movable wheels on base bottom that to state it’s short life span. When people get inside the tent, would turn his eyes naturally up to the opening above, to transfer his prayer through the sky into the eternity.
Chuppa Design
2018, built, plywood, supported by Hephzibah Global Ministry
“What is the beginning of new family?”
In Jewish culture, the Chuppa is the wedding tent where the bride and the bridegroom to stand inside to hold the wedding oath-taking ceremony. Chuppa represents the start of their new home, and the Tallit covered above means the blessing and protection for the new family.
SUKKAH Tea-house
2018, built, Japanese lacquer, supported by Kanada-Lab in Tokyo University of Arts
“What could be the engine of cultural innovation ?”
In this Japanese tea-house design, it was inspired by the space of SUKKAH which is temporary living tent during the most important feast in Jewish culture. The SUKKAH is a space four-side closed by fabric material which also applied in this tea-house. It bridges two culture by the materiality.
The Beginning
2017, Chinese ink on paper, 33 x 24 cm
“What is our beginning?”
Drops of ink falling down on the paper then exploded to omni directions. Here comes the question, what is the beginning of Chinese culture?
Urushi Stool
2016, Japanese lacquer, photo attribute to Kanada-Lab in Tokyo University of Arts,
H45 x W30 cm
Emotional Nature
2016, pastel on paper, 33 x 12 cm
“How to describe the nature by emotion?”
These pastel painting describe the nature elements such as wind, season, mountain, cloudy, moist, etc, through the emotional expression.
Poetic Space
2014, propasal
“What is the modern questions of the Chinese are facing to?”
These proposal models are trying find out one solution to arouse modern Chinese people to think in creative spaces inspired by Chinese poetries.
One City One Mountain
2014, propasal
“What’s wrong with Beijing?”
Beijing is sick, his malnutrition is the result of rapid economic growth. This proposal shows the alternative planning option for Beijing’s CBD centre district by one artificial mountain.
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