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Radiant Bloom Public Art

Radiant Bloom

Radiant Bloom is a public sculpture created for an architectural void. The work is made of high strength stainless steel with a fully mirror polished finish. Multiple curved elements form intersecting archways that recall a fountain and a blooming flower. The sculpture spans a circular ceiling void and extends into a ground level water feature with a transparent glass pool base. Daylight passes through the pool into the underground space below. A programmable LED lighting system adds changing colour. The mirrored surface reflects the sky and the surrounding landscape.

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Infinity Interior Element

Infinity

Infinity is a suspended wooden installation created for the interior of a furniture shop. The work is made of pressed wood veneers formed into two basic shapes, repeated many times in several orientations. Precise geometrical joints connect the pieces into one continuous flowing line. Each pressed piece is 1 meter long and 6 mm thick. Infinity hangs from the ceiling on metal wires 1 mm thick, 4 meters above the floor, and covers an area about 4 meters wide and 10.5 meters long. A handmade model was 3D scanned, and the mold was milled by CNC.

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Heart Maze Art Installations

Heart Maze

This is an art installation in an art workshop, a maze installation related to heart. It ostensibly looks like an exhibition for a charity jewelry event, with a contrasting black and red design that takes full advantage of the visual impact of mirrored surfaces and colored transparent acrylic. But in reality, it was a carefully curated proposal. It means that love is like walking in a maze, looking for something, you need to find the right person at the right time and find the right route (answer) to reach the final exit. And there is only one exit-lover.

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Incense Bamboo Art Installation

Incense

Incense is a large scale bamboo art installation created for a temple in Taipei. The work reinterprets the traditional ritual of incense burning. Locally sourced Taiwanese bamboo is heat bent and woven in multiple layers, and translucent textiles are added. The spiraling form recalls the movement of rising smoke. The installation measures 3000 millimeters in width, 3000 millimeters in depth and 4000 millimeters in height. Visitors can move around and beneath the structure and observe sunlight passing through the bamboo weave.

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Earth Art Series

Earth

Earth is a fine art series of ten textured, biodegradable compositions. Each work is made with hand-harvested natural pigments, sand, stone powder, and reclaimed urban materials such as discarded wood. Each color refers to a specific environmental issue. Gold refers to fast fashion, black to fossil fuels, silver to animal agriculture, beige to deforestation, and white to microplastics. The series avoids synthetic substances and follows a zero-waste, water-free process. The works can be hung on a wall or placed flat as sculptural pieces.

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Breathing Apple Art  Furniture Installation

Breathing Apple

Breathing Apple is an art installation that also serves as a chair. The form keeps the outline of an apple, with irregular indentations that suggest a body reshaped by pressure. The indentation and recovery of the surface express the idea of breathing and of inner revival. The piece is hand stitched from leather scraps discarded by factories. Natural color variations, visible stitching lines and untrimmed edges create a warm and tactile texture. Ergonomics guide the curves, so the work can be shown as display art or used as everyday seating.

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Open Work Architectural Pavilion

Open Work

Open Work is a performative spatial space. It is shaped around the metaphors of consciousness and thresholds. Abstract gates and the plan created by surfaces that function like instruments turn into an experience of exchange with the visitor's touch. It intentionally emphasizes monumentality but as visitors interact with the space, this untouchability gives way to an auditory quality and flexibility. This theatrical space is not grounded anywhere and carries its roots along with it, the system is mobile. This structure is also a gentle question mark to the emerging new world right before humans.

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See the Unseen Immersive Ephemeral Art Exhibition

See the Unseen

As the Lunar New Year approaches while most embrace a visible dragon design, the team aim to create a memorable dragon experience that elevates visitors' imagination and memory of the hidden dragon. By partnering with Penique Productions for Taikoo Hui Mall’s CNY, it integrated artistic techniques and mediums to make the dragon elusive with red recyclable film to craft a glass box, this reimagined space offers a sense of elusive presence that enhances the visitor's immersion into the concept of the dragon, aiming to bring new year blessings them in the newly redefined space of the mall.

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Red House Exhibition

Red House

Red House is an art installation created for a lantern festival in Taipei. The work forms a tunnel corridor of eight sides, built from stainless steel pipe and laser cut metal sheets. Each side carries carved images of the Ximending area placed in chronological order, starting with the Red House building of 1908. Computer controlled LED lights illuminate the panels and brighten the street. Fluorocarbon baking paint protects the surfaces for long term display. Visitors walk through the corridor and read the history of the city through pictures rather than text.

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The Allegory Art Installation

The Allegory

The Allegory is a permanent public art installation set into the central plaza of a sports park in Taipei. The design draws on Baroque and Rococo ceiling frescoes and joins them with symbols of baseball stadiums, consumer goods and entertainment. The composition measures 11.4 by 11.4 meters and includes 37 cast iron panels, 10 angel figures and 50 flower-shaped plates. Wooden molds are carved by machine, cast in metal by sand casting and then hand-filled with colored epoxy resin. Set flush with the floor, the four directions of the work guide people across the plaza.

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Oyoga Chair

Oyoga

Oyoga is a modular seat designed for group use in shared rest areas. Unlike fixed chairs, Oyoga uses a rotating joint structure, so the layout can change from a three person seat to a six person seat according to the number of users. Each seat is a yoga ball, which adds softness and allows light exercise while sitting. A ball can also be flipped up to act as a backrest for the seat beside it. Elastic materials provide comfort, and metal connectors keep the parts stable and simple to replace. Pomegranate seeds inspired the form as a symbol of unity.

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Night of Celebration Artwork

Night of Celebration

Night of Celebration is a wall-mounted glass sculpture. The work joins antique glass goblets with a freely blown glass form. A mold of an antique goblet was pressed onto the heated body, leaving a concave negative imprint on the surface. Hot glass appears to pour from the goblets, suggesting the continuity of tradition through time. After cooling, the form was cut and polished, then coated with a special solution for a pearl effect and baked again. The finished piece measures 430 by 200 by 500 millimeters.

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