For this project, I created a lampshade for my old ikea night light which I don't use much anymore. I used grapefruit and dry them in the oven as my citrus material.
I spliced white cloth and organza to form this lampshade. For the pattern on the lampshade, I used dry grapefruit slices dipped in different shades of orange acrylic paint (The colors are base on the skin of grapefruit in different degree of dryness.) and printed them on the fabric. Two types of fabric create a sense of layering and contrast. And the style of the lampshade tends to be simple and elegant.
I also used line to connect one piece of grapefruit slice as the flame. If you move the lamp, the "flame" will flutter and it contains the smells of grapefruit.
I made this out of the box piece with my group. We decided to create a experience of sitting beside the bonfire a rain in the night. And we made this head-wear installation.
For the smells, we create the rain note by puting wet dirt and leaves into the vodk and the smke note by burning incense in a box that contains cottons.
"In a forest in twilight by a tree hiding by leafs you see a box, you reach for it."
I was inspired by a plot that happens in many movies and TV shows: The main characters bury treasure or mementos in the ground. After many years, they will dig them up and bring them back to the memories.
I create this mysterial pattern to give the sense of magic, and once you open it, it have many items that represent my childhood.
This is fruit flavor sugar smell protective face mask. I use wire, candy paper, gummy bear, stickers to make this face mask.
This is a collabrated project with my roommate -- Chaoyue Wang. We were inspired by ancient Chinese style, Chinese minority cultures, and the personification portrait of some herbs.
We create two head-wearable pieces which represent 白芷（Angelica dahurica）and 花椒（Sichuan Peppercorn.）This two materials are both traditional Chinese medicine that came from plants. One is more elegant and gentle, and the other one is more enegetic and enthusiastic.
This is a group project that we recorded the sound in the nature or daily life and use them to create a piece of music.
This is the second part of the music related project. In this project we need to choose a song from the playlist that the professor offered us and create a installation for the song.
Guru Bandana In Desh Malhar reminds me the scene that a Chinese hermit practived martial arts in a bamboo forest. So we decided to adopt Chinse traditional elements: tea culture, ink wash painting, Chinese instruments, and meaning of red threat etc. to create this installation inside our campus.
This is the interpretation of one poem from Nine Songs which called The Little Lord of the Life.
Me and my group members did the research about Chinse New Year's Eve and create the ritual art piece for it.
We present many tradtional custom that people usually do in this specific day. For the smell part, we make nine different smell of foods that Chinese people usually eat in their family reunion dinner.
I made this romantic and immersive wine culture related sanctuary for my last project. This is related to my thesis design topic that creating a immersive muti-sensory experience for wine-tasting.
I wash the fabric in wine which allows the smell leaves on the fabric and dried flowers as decoration.