Prototype
Salt Seat draws from the winter streets of New York, where coarse rock salt is scattered to melt ice and reshape the city’s surface. Cast in concrete and embedded with large salt crystals, the piece preserves natural voids, fractures, and mineral-like formations created by the material itself. When illuminated from below, the salt refracts and diffuses light, revealing textures reminiscent of a geological cross-section or an urban terrain sample.
Technique: prototype with foam board, concrete casting, plywood mold, LED strip
Technique: prototype with foam board, concrete casting, plywood mold, LED strip
This piece is crafted through a combination of four-axis CNC machining and traditional wood turning. Its exterior adopts a triangular geometric form, while a hollow cylindrical space is carved within, creating a tension between solidity and void. Made from walnut, the surface is finished with tung oil, giving the wood a deeper, warmer tone and highlighting the richness of its grain.
Technique: 4-axis CNC, wood turning
Technique: 4-axis CNC, wood turning
How do you see the river at night?
The night is in the shade yet is never a mere blackness. The perception of darkness is because it is wedded to the light. It is obscure to tell the invisible form of the river, but we feel it through the shimmer of its movement. This project explores the edge of perception on the water in the shade of night. Through offering entangled visual representations of shimmering while interacting with water undulation, the combined experience provides a trance of the present moment, stretching the sensibility between retinal sense and subjective perceiving.
Technique: openFrameworks, Kinect depth sensing, projection mapping, real-time interaction
Technique: openFrameworks, Kinect depth sensing, projection mapping, real-time interaction
Fullmoon is a slow-tech device that displays the current moon phase on a pacific e-ink display. It is designed to experience slowness and subtlety, offering a layer of time perception and natural rhythm to daily life. The inconspicuous e-ink display refreshes every three minutes, allowing for gradual changes in the moon phase pixel by pixel. The slow and subtle updates of moon phase create a breathing space between social time and circadian rhythm, and fostering a connection with the lunar cycles.
Technique: solar panel, low-power control, arduino/RTC, e-ink base-layer programming, woodwork
Technique: solar panel, low-power control, arduino/RTC, e-ink base-layer programming, woodwork
One afternoon, I was walking on the street. A gust of wind raised a plastic bag — soft, frivolous, inattentive, floating in the air. The plastic lifted and swam into a sunbeam, rendering itself translucent, billowing like a cloud.
What do we imagine when we think of a cloud in a climate change era?
In this project, a mechanized spatial system controls a transparent plastic bag. This system enables it to deform and flow according to the viewer’s movement. An LIDAR scanning system positioned in the corner provides position data to the microcontroller.
Technique: arduino, LIDAR sensing with servo motor, step motor position programming
What do we imagine when we think of a cloud in a climate change era?
In this project, a mechanized spatial system controls a transparent plastic bag. This system enables it to deform and flow according to the viewer’s movement. An LIDAR scanning system positioned in the corner provides position data to the microcontroller.
Technique: arduino, LIDAR sensing with servo motor, step motor position programming
The Poem of Deciduous is a screen-based interactive installation where poems drift and scatter like leaves falling through the air in response to participants' hand movements.
The poem used in this project, Ode to the West Wind, written by Percy Bysshe Shelley, engages the west wind as a force of death and decay, but also the promise of rejuvenation and rebirth. The audience is invited to use invisible force from their hands to sense the floating and falling of verses and words.
Technique: Computer vision with poseNet, p5js particle text system, arduino/IR sensor
The poem used in this project, Ode to the West Wind, written by Percy Bysshe Shelley, engages the west wind as a force of death and decay, but also the promise of rejuvenation and rebirth. The audience is invited to use invisible force from their hands to sense the floating and falling of verses and words.
Technique: Computer vision with poseNet, p5js particle text system, arduino/IR sensor
Zen Cube is a responsive meditation companion that assists daily meditation through light and sound.
Powered by an Arduino Uno, it uses a VL53L1X time-of-flight sensor to detect approach and trigger a soft NeoPixel “breathing” glow. Hand-wave gestures on the cube’s sides toggle audio playback via an MP3 Player Shield and microSD, ranging from a single bell tone on the top to looping nature soundscapes on the four sides, with optional fade in/out for smooth transitions. The enclosure is fabricated from wood panels with lasercut and color spray.
Technique: arduino with MP3 palyer, gesture sensing with time-of-flight, NeoPixel breathing light
Powered by an Arduino Uno, it uses a VL53L1X time-of-flight sensor to detect approach and trigger a soft NeoPixel “breathing” glow. Hand-wave gestures on the cube’s sides toggle audio playback via an MP3 Player Shield and microSD, ranging from a single bell tone on the top to looping nature soundscapes on the four sides, with optional fade in/out for smooth transitions. The enclosure is fabricated from wood panels with lasercut and color spray.
Technique: arduino with MP3 palyer, gesture sensing with time-of-flight, NeoPixel breathing light
