A birthday gift to my childhood friend Cindy Lin. A painting resembles the color palette of Henri Matisse's Woman With A Hat, to express my respect to her boldness in her career path. The gift message is wrapped around the frame, which the viewer has to read by rotating the painting, challenging traditional ways of appreciating paintings. The painting process has been streamed on Twitch. The whole process was edited to a video clip and later sent to Cindy Lin, in which I mumbled about the intention of my choices and the TV show I was watching. I'm always in deep interest exploring what should be a part of an artwork. The remaining colors? The tools I used? Sounds I heard? TV showed I watched? Do all of them which affect how the painting ends up to be should be a part of the artwork?

This paper sculpture is in memory of my grandpa, who died at 12/06/2019 (GMT+8), around 15 weeks of my pregnancy, one month after I came back from visiting. I was told until my son was 100 days old. Scrambled eggs with tomatoes is my all time favorite that my grandpa used to cook for us (me and my cousin) during my entire childhood. I documented the process of my creation and explained the other intention to provide visual stimulation to baby with high contrast drawing that spins. This video was originally posted on RED, a Chinese social media platform that gathers mothers who care about early education. The mumbling was for this purpose but also an experiment of talking through the entire creation. At the end of the day, this dish passes down to my son, the next generation who never met his great grandpa but influenced by him in an interesting way.

Created with Unity in 2014, this piece of work is trying to further explore the concept of reality and the representation of reality on Rene Magritte's painting The Human Condition in 1935 with modern technology.

It was made for a typography contest in my first design class in grad school. 12 students in 6 pairs. Each pair had to think of one word and express this word using whatever forms of design. Mine was "pinch", so I used color paper and pinched them into the shape of this word. My "PiNCH" stood out from the rest and won the 1st place and 2 packs of Snickers. Not sure why the lowercase "i", maybe because my insensitiveness of the language as a foreign student at that time, or could be proud of that finishing touch of that little dot on top.

Photos taken from 6am to 24am, on a 1.5-hour basis, 12 in total, on 12/22/2012, at 39.98N, 116.38E, outside of my home in Beijing, China, thus the format of the date. It is an exploration of asynchronicity between time and space and of my world right after “the end of the world” - 12/21/2012.

“t” represents time in x-axis. You'll see tangent functions from top view, and sine functions from side view. At the very beginning I was intrigued by different perspectives from artists and the polarity of art trend when sometime artists wanted to represent for the neglected uniqueness and sometime for the overlooked everyday objects at the very beginning, but this really applies to any constant changes to the opposite direction, either gradual as a sine function or sudden as a tangent function. This piece, too, is trying to use everyday objects to represent a unique connection between math functions and art trends.

OUT is a self meditation piece. I was curving my own future as I was curving the iron wire for my grad school application, that's probably the missing part for me in the digital world back then. It is made of lines, fragile yet powerful when arranging in a different way in our 3D space.

Sausage in China is originally made during winter time and ready to consume when Lunar New Year approaches. Here, the casing is filled with preserved paper money. It's meant to question the self-destructive behavior of making profits from poor quality food. The sausage cuts were made by the butcher who owned the sausage booth.

Inspired by a summer at a Los Angeles language school — a literal 'global village'. UNchanged expresses the profound sense of belonging I felt among students of all races, complexions, and religions. I treated national flags as digital assets: selecting them at random, rotating them at varying angles, and applying transparency until their rigid boundaries blend into one another. These origami balloons represent children of mixed backgrounds — small as sand, but precious as pearls. They are a physical manifestation of a future woven from a delicate, transparent blend of our untold stories.

For years, Computer Science felt like a sterile desert of text. It wasn't until my senior year that I stumbled upon the 'Event Listener'—the magic bridge where code finally met reaction. Programming then became a natural medium for interactivity: a way to capture movement, force, and physical impact.

Metamorphosis is a study of growth—an exploration of how we keep reacting and reshaping ourselves until we finally recognize the person we’ve become.

My first digital readymade from freshman year, created at the time when getting my first laptop opened the door to the magic of Photoshop. This collage is a tribute to Jimmy Liao, blending motifs from several of his picture books to capture a sense of gentle solitude. It mirrors the quiet tension of my early search between Computer Science I majored, and a reckless devotion to art. It is the art of choosing to be lost.

The urge to go to the restroom during a polymer clay class in my high school gave birth to my first masterpiece. I thought it could be hardened by microwave, but the whole piece turned into a lump of brownish melt.

Still lost. Still making.