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〈Soft Fragments, Reassembled〉(2025)
A piece created by dismantling and reassembling discarded fibers rescued from the Rescue Fabric Center to give them new sculptural life.
It explores the process through which post-consumer textiles, once thrown away, are reborn into soft and resilient forms.
My work Soft Fragments, Reassembled is a project in which I dismantled discarded fabric scraps rescued from the Rescue Fabric Center, then re-sewed, filled, and reconstructed them into new sculptural objects.
The final installation consists of a large textile sphere accompanied by smaller ornamental pieces, visualizing the moment when fibers—once the byproducts of consumption—gain a new life.
I consider these leftover textile fragments, pushed to the margins of industrial production, as “social residue.” Through the processes of wrapping, filling, and reshaping these remnants, I explore both the fragility and resilience of the material.
The layered textures created by fabrics with different weaves, elasticity, and degrees of wear reveal textiles as bodily media that store memory, time, and traces of use, rather than mere materials.
The large spherical form in the work shows how scraps that were once clothing can come together again to form an independent sculptural structure. It symbolizes how discarded materials in the post-consumption landscape can support one another and coexist.
The smaller ornament series experiments with the materiality and structural potential of textiles at their most fundamental level, showing how fragments of everyday life can recover new form, tactility, and emotional value.
This reflects my interest in the politics and sustainability of “softness” within violent systems of production and disposal.
With Soft Fragments, Reassembled, I aim to move beyond simple upcycling. The work poses contemporary questions about healing, regeneration, and the reconstruction of memory through textiles—translating into sculptural language the moment when discarded objects regain shape, function again within someone’s space, and acquire new emotional significance.
〈Wildfire Detection, Prevention 〉(2024)
Seeing the Banff wildfire made environmental damage feel urgent, pushing me to explore Raspberry Pi sensors to track pollution and air quality. I connected that research with cigarette-butt cleanup projects at Grouse, Cypress, and City Hall to understand how small local pollutants can scale into larger environmental risks.
My project begins with the visceral experience of witnessing the Banff wildfires through footage and photographs — a moment that transformed distant environmental problems into an immediate emotional reality. This sense of urgency led me to explore how small, everyday pollutants accumulate into larger ecological risks.
Using Raspberry Pi microcomputers, I built a series of low-cost environmental sensing devices that measure air quality, particulate concentration, and micro-changes in local pollution. The technical work became a way to translate emotion into data, turning abstract concern into measurable patterns.
To ground the research in lived environments, I carried out cigarette-butt collection and mapping projects at Vancouver City Hall. I treated these discarded butts as a form of “urban residue” — small objects that quietly shape soil health, water flow, and the ecosystem around them. Each site revealed different spatial behaviors of waste, showing how tiny pollutants migrate, accumulate, and persist.
The project’s layered structure — fire imagery, sensor data, and physical waste — reflects my interest in how environmental crises emerge from both dramatic events and unnoticed patterns. The Raspberry Pi sensors visualize the invisible; the cleanup work confronts the tangible. Together, they show the continuum between micro-pollution and macro-disaster.
Rather than simply documenting environmental damage, this project asks how human-generated residue circulates through landscapes, how early warning signs can be detected, and how community-level action connects to global ecological narratives. In bringing these elements together, I seek to illuminate the fragile chain linking everyday waste to the large-scale environmental transformations we can no longer ignore.
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