Suspended Joy
Suspended Joy, H 120 x W 60 X D 4 inch, 2025
My work deconstructs traditional Chinese peony motifs into mechanically replicated glass modules fused with sugar-frosted fragility through thermal processes. These proliferating patterns, embedded in industrial sandscapes, hover between archaeological excavation sites and post-consumerist ruins.
As cultural symbols stripped of context become ephemeral sensory imprints in late capitalism, the luminous pseudo-artifacts pose a crystalline paradox: does infinite ornamental reproduction memorialize permanence or prophesy erasure?