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DOMESTIC WEATHER
MOLT
SCALE
UNDERGROWTH
EXOSKELETON 
FAULT LINE
EQUILIBRIUM
THREE ENERGY
THREE CONATAINER
COLD FRONT




Size: 90 × 45 × 65 cm

Year: 2026

Material:
Air conditioner unit,
Silicone tubing, Wiring







The machine that keeps us comfortable is also the one we never look inside. A domestic air conditioner has been opened and left mid-metamorphosis, its casing peeled back to reveal a tangle of black tubing that reads as much like viscera as ventilation. Behind the fan, a small screen loops footage of a city skyline, so that the unit appears to be breathing an image of the outside world back into the room it serves. The work treats climate control as an intimate, almost bodily infrastructure: something we depend on so completely that its interior has become unthinkable, until it starts to look back.
DOMESTIC WEATHER    







Size: 90 × 60 × 60 cm

Year: 2025

Material:
Aluminum framework
Stretched plastic
Copper wire
LED lighting






















Something is shedding, and we are standing inside what it left behind. Lit from within by cold white and warm yellow LEDs, the plastic skin catches light unevenly, so the piece looks less like an object and more like a moment of transformation paused mid-motion. Seen in a darkened room, it recalls both a shed exoskeleton and a curtain of aurora: matter caught between being discarded and being born.
MOLT



Size: 30 × 15 × 30 cm

Year: 2025 

Material:
Cast plaster and resin terrain
1:87 scale figure

























The mountain does not know it is small; only the figure knows. A single miniature figure stands at the foot of a jagged, metallic peak, a landscape that could belong to a diorama or to a dream. The terrain's texture, raked and glacial, refuses to say whether it is rock, ice, or something manufactured. By fixing one human-scaled body against an ambiguous monument, the work stages the quiet vertigo of standing before something too large to fully account for.
SCALE










Size: 50 × 30 × 30 cm

Year: 2025

Material: Cast resin, perforated aluminum board, internal LED lighting


























Dozens of pale, spiked forms rise from a perforated metal board like a forest caught between ice and bone. Lit from beneath, each spike glows faintly, giving the installation the hush of a frozen understory rather than the violence its silhouette might suggest. The piece asks what kind of "nature" appears when growth is simulated with industrial materials, a landscape that is both artificial and in its persistence. UNDERGROWTH






Size: 50 × 50 × 30 cm

Year: 2025

Material: Fractured acrylic and glass, steel wire armature, dot-grid display board





























It kept its shape after everything else was broken. Built entirely from shattered acrylic and glass held together by a thin steel skeleton, this creature-like form crouches across a gridded platform as though caught mid-stride. Its body reads simultaneously as insect, dinosaur, and wreckage, an organism assembled from its own debris. The work treats fracture not as failure but as a structural principle: a body that survives by being broken into exactly the right pieces.
EXOSKELETON








Size: 50 × 30 × 30 cm

Year: 2025

Material: Fractured acrylic and glass, steel wire armature, dot-grid display board



























A single sheet, folded into a tight zigzag, is pulled taut by copper wires strung horizontally across a wooden frame, like a section cut through a mountain range, or a seismograph reading turned solid. The tension in the wires keeps the folded form from collapsing, so the piece exists in a state of held stress: a landscape, or a body, permanently bracing against a force we can't see.

FAULT LINEEEeEE

Size: 100 × 50 × 50 cm

Year: 2025

Material: Fractured acrylic and glass, steel wire armature




























  A precise steel-and-brass pendulum sits beside a raw stone fitted, almost apologetically, with a small mechanical spike. two very different solutions to the same problem of staying upright. Placed together on a tabletop, they read like specimens from two different disciplines, engineering and geology, each trying to describe stability in its own vocabulary. The smallest piece in the group, it functions as a kind of footnote to the rest of the exhibition, a reminder that balance is always a negotiation, never a given.

EQUILIBRIUM



Size: 10 × 10 × 10 cm

Year: 2023 

Material: PVC pipe fittings, steel remote-control panel, keys, found objects

























Nothing here is heavy. Everything here is held."Three small rigs, each a variation on the same idea: an object suspended not by its own weight but by the exact tension of the threads pulling against it. A steel control panel balances on a taut pyramid of wire; a set of keys hangs from a single vertical line; a grey PVC elbow joint, bent like a limb mid-gesture, is held aloft between two more wire tripods, caught in a pose it could not hold on its own. None of the objects are performing their intended function anymore; instead, each becomes a small demonstration of stored force, energy made visible only as the effort of staying still. Displayed as a set of three, the piece asks what "energy" looks like once it stops moving, not power in use, but power in reserve, quietly maintaining a shape.
3 Energy

Size: 45 × 30 × 20 cm

Year: 2023

Material: Found objects (takeaway coffee cup, descaler bottle, electrical plug, scouring pad), copper wire




























  A paper coffee cup, a bottle of limescale remover, and a household plug are joined by a single length of bent copper wire, looping between them like a hand-drawn schematic or an overgrown vine. Each object is, in its ordinary life, a container of some kind of liquid, of heat, of current,but here their contents are irrelevant; what matters is the line that now runs through all three, treating a coffee cup and a bottle of bathroom cleaner as though they belonged to the same electrical system. The copper wire doesn't actually carry power, but it borrows the visual language of one, proposing a domestic mythology in which the ordinary vessels under a kitchen sink are secretly, quietly connected.
3 Container