Where We Meet Again
2025
This series explores the elusive feeling of reunion—not as a literal return, but as a tender attempt to reach toward the past through sensory fragments and emotional echoes. The works dwell in the space between memory and presence, where longing coexists with uncertainty. While drawn by the desire to reconnect with what once was, they remain gently skeptical: can we ever truly return, or do we only circle around the outlines of remembrance, suspended in something softer and more abstract?
This video installation draws from a sensory memory rooted in my childhood bedroom in Fuzhou, where a large window faced a banyan tree. Every summer, the rhythmic hum of cicadas became a natural white noise—waking me, lulling me to sleep, and eventually embedding itself into my body and memory. After moving to London, fragments of that soundscape and the window’s quiet presence often return to me during emotional lows—as if the repetition of those fleeting moments could offer comfort, a soft way to hold myself together. Using a second-hand wooden window, curtain, summer plant footage, and a cicada soundscape, the piece creates a tender space of emotional circulation. It serves as both a personal pocket of stillness and a shared site for introspection, inviting viewers to dwell in a suspended moment of quiet resonance and soft healing.
This beaded staircase is a fragile structure, inspired by the rainy seasons of my subtropical hometown. After storms, raindrops often cling to spiderwebs—delicate, glimmering connections that linger in my memory. Echoing those fleeting formations, this work imagines reunion as something tender and uncertain: a return not to a place, but to a feeling—transparent, suspended, like a dream just out of reach.
* This series was created during the 2025 Hands-On Artist Residency