Growing up between Japan, Hong Kong, China, and the UK has shaped my experience as a third culture individual and continues to inform my practice. Rather than searching for a fixed or authentic identity, I investigate how the self is continually constructed through relationships with other people, social expectations, and the spaces we inhabit.

 

Experiencing rapid urban development alongside cultural and ethnic tensions led me to question how architecture, objects, and everyday environments influence bodily behaviour and the ways we understand ourselves. Working across sculpture, installation, performance, and site-specific practice, I create situations that examine the reciprocal relationship between body and space: how environments choreograph our movements, while our repeated actions simultaneously leave traces that shape those environments.

 

My research draws on theories of performativity, phenomenology, and spatial practice, particularly the work of Erving Goffman. I understand identity as something continuously performed through embodied habits, social rituals, and everyday interactions. Rather than illustrating these ideas, I use artistic practice as a form of research, allowing sculpture and performance to become methods for questioning how individual identity coexists with collective structures.

 

With a background in theatre and performance, I approach sculpture as an active agent rather than a passive object. My works are designed to influence movement, perception, and behaviour, inviting viewers to negotiate their own relationship with the space and with one another. Equally, the materials and environments resist my intentions during the making process, so each work emerges through an ongoing dialogue between artist, material, site, and audience.

 

Relational and site-specific research remain central to my methodology. Each project responds to the histories, social conventions, and embodied experiences embedded within a particular place, using artistic intervention to reveal the often invisible systems that organise everyday life. I see every artwork as an unfinished stage within a longer process of inquiry, where each project generates new questions rather than definitive conclusions.

 

Recently, I have worked primarily with industrial materials such as mild steel, drawn to their simultaneous solidity and malleability. These materials embody the tension between permanence and change, reflecting the contradictory nature of identity itself: shaped by social structures yet constantly renegotiated through lived experience. Through these encounters between body, material, and space, I ask how we might exist in relation to others and society without losing our sense of self.