My work explores the dynamic between attachment and detachment to people, places, objects, memories and emotions. Through installations that include video, photography and sculpture, I investigate my visceral reactions to these connections and the transformation of time.


I utilize the bodily materials of gelatin, hair, latex and foam as metaphors for complex human interaction and the potential for entanglement and vulnerability. Gelatin, a viscous and translucent yet ungraspable form, congeals, shifts and dissolves over time, serving as a broth for the transgressive consumption of hair and teeth. Latex, a skin-like material, collects human and other environmental detritus. Through performance and sculpture, these mediums embody impermanence, the passage of time and inevitabilities, such as estrangement, aging, death and loss.


Large-scale, fantastical tooth sculptures symbolize one of the most intimate, fragile, and essential parts of our body. Absent at birth, our teeth erupt violently as we age by breaking through delicate oral tissues. In traditional Taiwanese belief, teeth symbolize earthly desires and are removed from corpses in preparation for the journey to the afterlife. Removing them prevents the metaphorical consumption of living descendents by deceased generations, resulting in pure souls.


By blurring boundaries among form, memory and emotion, I embody the tension between mental fixation and physical fleetingness.