My work depends on a genuine connection to the material. This connection is built upon a foundation of playfulness. Through “playing”, I test and manipulate, experiment and examine. I may leave it for months, then return to it with fresh thoughts. I watch for the moment of surprise, when the material responds to one or a series of actions, and performs an inimitable physical or conceptual outcome, which becomes the lead into a new project.

Often, what I learned from the material calls for a particular set of elements: structure, orientation, location, space, light, sound, history, and traffic patterns. Other times, I come upon a space by chance. It asks for a way to be transformed or fulfilled, by an essence or energy. And through the dialogue with the material and sensitive spatial compositions, I attempt to deliver it.

Coming from the east and being in the west, the two value systems in my life inevitably contradict and influence each other. Some times one overpowers then other, other times it blends into a rapt mixture of the colorful and the colorless that my work embodies. I see a cycle of remembrance, adaptation, avoidance, and rediscovery of the two cultures in my creative path.

Though my work is ephemeral oftentimes, I am satisfied with the perceptual connection that people make with it. Like reading a poem, the tone of voice affects the layering of words, which emerge, echo, and fade out through time. A visit to the work is an encounter with the solidification of time and change. From outside to inside, lured by the tiny sounds or unforeseen details that are inherent to the piece, one goes through a journey of discovery and enchantment, and engages with the space that the work illuminates.