Flight Speculation I — Exhaustion
Paper, bamboo, natural dyes, mohair, northern red oak, rock, soil
2024
Speculating how to fly a kite when there isn’t enough wind by hiking to the top of a forest at midday and running until the point of exhaustion. After losing my breath, I wondered if I had flown.
Photographed by Sara Hinterlong in Baltimore, USA.
Photographed by Sara Hinterlong in Baltimore, USA.








Selected Works
Still Fire
Instrument
Long Time (Ginkgo)
Flight Speculation I — Exhaustion
Flight Speculation II — Anchoring
Between Blood, Breath and Sea
(血脉,不息,守望)
Meditations I — my god is dark
“god’s eye” / “god in a seed” I
“god’s eye” / “god in a seed” II
Untitled (Portrait)
To Bury a Bird
1+1+1+1+1
In Response to Explanation
noon
First Touch
How To Make A Wish
Visualization of a Wish
still life
Selected Exhibitions
Where the Light Blows (Solo Exhibition, 2024)
If Birds Could Fly: On Speculative Futurisms (Curation, 2024
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