xīn xiàng（心象）
2026–present
Interactive installation: ceramics, sensors, microcontroller, micro air pump, silicone bladders, steel ball bearings, threaded rods, code video.
Installation variable; Ceramic components : 16.8 × 9.4 × 9.4 inches, 13 × 6.5 × 6 inches, 5.5 × 6 × 2 inches, 4 × 4.5 × 0.5 inches.
A site-responsive installation featuring sensory ceramic sculptural composition. When participants approach, sensors trigger an air pump to inflate and deflate an internal silicon balloon against the heavy clay walls, measuring breath as bodily time. Originally exhibited indoors with four sculptures, the work has expanded outdoors into seven vessels exposed to erosive soil, weathering, and humid air.
When a participant approaches, the electronic sensor registers their physical distance, triggering the pump to continuously inflate and deflate an internal silicon balloon against the heavy clay walls.
Within this interactive loop, the somatic image manifests as raw breath, and breath is directly measured as bodily time.
xīn xiàng (心象) is a gallery-based installation in which participants are invited to interact with a series of sensory ceramic vessels. The work initially features four parallel-aligned sculptures connected to an internal Arduino microcontroller, an air pump, and a infrared sensor.
xīn xiàng (心象) , 4.5 in x 0.5in, 2026-present
The work then shifts its venue to an outdoor where the scope expands into seven distinct vessels. Rather than fixed biological forms, these seven pieces represent seven different material states of human cognition.
In the outdoor expansion of xīn xiàng (心象) , the site transitions from the enclosed institutional gallery to an unbounded natural landscape. The exhibition departs from fixed anatomical structures, instead unravelling and reassembling the evolution of human cognition into seven distinct material states. Exposed to erosive soil, weathering, and humid air, the work allows the physical decay of matter to become an active constituent of the perceptive experience.