The Unicorn Out Of Captivity

2021
Lenticular print, 13 x 9 inches

One day amid the pandemic, I woke up thinking of the celebrated tapestry art "The Unicorn in Captivity (from the Unicorn Tapestries)" at the Met Cloisters. I was not fond of the fact that people are contemplating a captured bleeding unicorn. To free the unicorn, I used photoshop to erase its chain, fence, and blood until it was released and healed. The erased fence appears illusory thanks to the optical property of the lenticular print, which is a metaphor suggesting that self-instituting is merely an illusion. In parallel with the extended self-isolation throughout the pandemic, it is a meditation on self-liberation and an invitation of unleashing the healing magic within oneself.

Golden Flower

2021
live streaming of poetry, sound, images

A 20 minutes sound/visual/poetry live streaming performance at Experimental Sound Studio’s quarantine concert series, curated by Kioto Aoki.

Golden Flower 
    金色花

 lost
sense of time
    时间的不在
 feel
    感知
inches of my soul’s layers
    灵性的层次
 they grow
    此消
and shrink
    彼长
 from a hummingbird
to a thunderbird
    从蜂鸟到雷鸟
 picturing a golden flower
    仿佛看见一朵金花
and singing aloud
    并吟唱它
 to let my mind in rest
    让心灵沉寂
and only hearing they come in arrays
    听见了一阵又一阵的来访
 a letter to myself
    给自己的一封信
 hanging at the edge
of living
    生活在崖上
 like all my sisters and brothers
    如同我所有的兄弟姐妹一样
 to calm me down
    宁得我宁静
 and to rise again
in the sun
    再从阳光里升起
 let’s go swimming in the river
    让我们一起去河里游泳
wherever you are
    无论你在哪