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Project 2024-2025.1
  1. Neverland
  2. No-body
  3. Hugging
  4. Study of Chicken
  5. Currents of Felt Experience
  6. Tear a Time Hole Series (1-4/4)
  7. Dumplings
  8. Absent (1-3/3)
  9. Little Red Flower  
  10. Confluent Love
  11. Listen, Holding Breath
  12. Two of the Five Evils






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2. Hugging

 2025 Sculpture (resin, pigment)


    
Hugging
15.0’ x 10.2’ x 14.2’
This sculpture explores the experience of hugging in terms of interpersonal space. In proxemics, Hall identified four zones of interpersonal distance and hug as the intimate response is defined as “how we structure, use, and are affected by space in our interactions with others”.






Inspired by the catcher hug at turning point in musical The Orphan of Zhao, the sculpture captures an immediate and lasting hug where two figures squeeze to fit into the space of one another in the dynamic of tilt.




The main structural form arm crossing corresponds to mortise and tenon structure used in ancient Chinese architecture which embodies the natural and stable bonds in the gesture of hugging.

By using resin and coloring in red and pink, the sculpture reveals how two figures interact and affect each other in touch, as if passing their body temperature and emotion through the joint surface.



Hugging process details (plaster)       
Hugging process details (clay)

Hugging 2025  ->