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The present past, door guardians & benign monsters
2026, Soft Sculpture

Dimensions (cm): 150h x 120l x 100d​
Materials: Corsetry hard mesh, boning, and recycled fabric & parts from child’s pop-up tent reformed into a bagua-shape. Quilted floor with embroidered figure & hair formed of Chinese Medicine roots & rhizomes used for hormonal regulation. Threshold sculpture made of silk jacquard holding bronze bell.




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Mending the heavens
2026, Hand-knit lace leaf, approx. 170cm.
​Materials: Titanium wire, Myanmar Jade and reflective glass beading.




​Research reference below:

Shanhaijing, Nüwa Mends the Heavens
Xiao Yuncong (1596-1673)
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  • ABOUT
    • Bio & Contact
    • CV
  • RECENT
  • PROJECTS
    • De-presencing [text]
    • a snake in the house means the family will never want
    • HAVE YOU EATEN YET? >
      • LUNAR LATE: Year of the Queer Rabbit
      • NIAN is here! 年到了
      • FU Salon
      • Lunar New Year Festival 2022
      • Deptford X Festival 2021: Have you eaten yet?
      • ABOUT 你吃了吗
    • How to be together again - Residency
    • Liquid Dreams
    • Flora / Fauna / Machina >
      • Chalton Gallery for Art Night (June 2019)
      • Gossamer Fog (January 2019)
    • Technologies of Lived Abstraction: FUTURE PRESENT >
      • FUTURE PRESENT 2
      • FUTURE PRESENT 1
    • BioSonics
    • Synchronic (In)visibility
  • SOUNDS