Hand Job
2022
My zine Hand Job compiles poems, essays & letters I’ve created over the past three years. The cover design mimics Quotations from Chairman Mao, celebrating the autonomous and rigorous aesthetic control embedded in Chinese aesthetics. This zine is more than a collection—it’s an open invitation for readers to do anything they desire with it: draw on it, tear it apart, rewrite it, cry on it, bleed on it, sprinkle salt on it, or even set it on fire. Readers are encouraged to interact with this book freely, pushing it to the point of emotional or intellectual climax.
This is an experiment to examine whether text can be so pure that it provokes hysteria in its audience. It asks: what lingers in the air, and can visual poetry be a spiritual revolution—a force higher than oneself? A COMPLETE DECIMATION OF ONE’S PRIORITIES, BELIEFS, OR WAY OF LIVING... A RECONSTRUCTION IN THE SPIRIT OF... A NEW GOD.
Examples of the content include the appropriation of erotic language, where words are assembled into representations of genitalia, satirizing their misuse and banality. The zine also features visual distortions of poetry that create vocal fluctuations when read aloud, exploring the intersection of text, sound, visual art and physicality.
Boiled Routine, 2024, Aug, Beijing You & Me Festival, sound performance
Exploring the endless feedback loops of existence, this piece finds poetic resonance in a simple yet profound ritual: intuitively timing the perfect moment to lift an egg from boiling water. It’s a solitary act, a meditation on the fluidity and perception of time, stretched and compressed in the mind’s grasp.
This theme unfolds with the raw textures of Max MSP-generated electronic noise, a visceral soundscape that envelops the audience. Boiled eggs become playful, tangible artifacts of this temporal inquiry—randomly thrown to the floor near spectators to test their doneness. The tension builds as participants taste the final egg. Their verdict? Medium cooked. Perfect.
The result is an evocative interplay of sound, gesture, and absurdity, where the suspension of time parallels the relentless dronescapes of experimental music. Here, sound serves as both a vessel for introspection and a confrontation with time’s slippery, unyielding nature. Through humor and raw immediacy, the piece transforms a mundane ritual into a shared exploration of temporal stasis and fleeting perfection
Untitled (2022)
On Canva
The aesthetic strategies of appropriation and negative space in the acrylic painting Untitled (2022) evoke an 'infrastructure' and 'childish garden' ambiance. Collages of vinyl cover paper titled WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN WINTER and the accidental pairing of the elephant with the woman’s 'blowjob' gesture reflect how we construct infrastructure—layering ups and downs to bridge 'abject' emotions in reality with 'high-end' art brut. The overall aesthetic of the painting emerges as an infrastructure shaped by real-time tactile movements and fleeting thoughts