Lure Installation Series borrows from the ancient Chinese legend of The Red Thread, which tells that when children are born, invisible red threads connect them to their soul mates. Over the years of their lives, they come closer and eventually find each other, overcoming great social divides or physical distances. Each composition of the series is designed to carefully respond to the given space and its architectural specificities.

Lure consists of thousands of hand-coiled disks of red thread, each pierced at the center by a single sewing needle, enabling its suspension from the ceiling. A disk may be connected to another, as a pair; and a pair of disks are made from a single thread. Subtle air currents set the red thread coils swaying and turning slowly as the loose strands of thread on the floor drift and become entangled.

Lure Series is part of the Red Thread Legend Series. See also Tie.Untie, and Bound #2.

Lure/Wave, UICA

“… materially simple but metaphorically rich … the (Lure) installation was luscious in color and expansive in dimension, as well as affectingly tremulous as each disk hung freely, suggestion both individuals in a crowd and some large, respiring organism.” Janet Kapolos, Art In America

Lure/Wave details

Lure/Fall, Fiskars Finland

Lure/Forest, LA

Lure/Forest installation view

Lure/Rise, Chinese Culture Foundation, San Francisco, photo by Frank Jang

Lure/Munich, detail