Moon Veil Pogoda (2025), brass incense burner, porcelain pagoda, inkjet print on PVC floor mat, video (4’29” loop), radio player, hot glue, voice by Jia Hu and Yi Xin Tong, 194 × 171 × 10 in

Pagoda I (2025), ironwood, aluminum, resin fiberglass, camphor wood, 63 × 13 × 11.5 in & Pagoda II (2025), aluminum, resin fiberglass, resin, camphor wood, 63 × 11 × 12.5 in

Golden Willow Racer (2025), 4K video (5’46” loop), LED screen, speakers, willow leaves scanned by Yanmo Zhang and Qian Xie, 3D animation by Mice

No Mercy – Willow Track Map (2025), willow leaves, UV print on polypropylene, resin, map: 16 × 16 × 2.5 in, base: 23.5 × 23.5 × 29 in

Mr. Tong Topples a Pagoda I (2025), hand-carved polypropylene, hardware, 94.5 × 44 × 1.25 in

Pagoda III (2025), ironwood, brass, resin fiberglass, resin, camphor wood, 63 × 11.5 × 13.5 in

Mercy (2025), carved camphor wood, resin fiberglass, 31 × 15 × 19.5 in

Mr. Tong Topples a Pagoda II (2025), hand-carved polypropylene, hardware, 94.5 × 47 × 1.25 in

Pagoda IV (2025), aluminum, resin fiberglass, camphor wood, 63 × 11 × 13 in

Mr. Tong Topples a Pagoda III (2025), hand-carved polypropylene, hardware, 95.25 × 31 × 1.25 in

No Exception (2025), lacquer, frosted acrylic, 128 pieces total, each: 14 × 9.5× 1 in

Inviting Trouble – Seal (2025), carved camphor wood, lacquer, anodized aluminum panel, seal: 13.5 × 11 × 11 in, base: 23.5 × 23.5 × 0.5 in

Noise Chapel – Blackfish Demon (2025), corrugated resin panel, timber, soundproofing foam, sound (43’19” loop), PA system, ear plugs, hot glue, lightbox, porcelain pagoda, engraving and oil on stainless steel, aluminum, ironwood, camphor wood, 472.5 × 177 × 94.5 in

Island-side Flute Play (2025), engraving and oil on stainless steel, 15.75 × 12 × 1.25 in

Dewy Dewy (2025), willow leaves collected the previous autumn, rust stains, water supply and drainage pipes, faucets, PVC insulating tape, willow leaves collected by Yanmo Zhang, Qian Xie, Jia Hu, and Lihua Zhu, 236 × 181 × 20.5 in

in Poyang Lake at the foot of Mount Lu
lived a blackfish demon
it preyed on people
until a boy with three shadows slew it
the lake ran red for ten miles
so the tale is told in What Confucius Would Not Speak Of
by Qing-era poet Yuan Mei
who favored strangeness, violence, chaos, and spirits
I find that boy evil

others say
the three pagodas at Three Pools Mirroring the Moon
are legs of an incense burner turned upside down
trapping the blackfish demon beneath
on a full moon night
Mr Tong secretly toppled a pagoda
the demon slipped free

Conditioned by paradox and tuned to poetics’ static, Noise Chapel slips between shrine and wreckage, diagram and disorientation. At its origin lies a toppled pagoda, brought down not in revolt but by misstep: a real yet elusive Mr. Tong whose accidental act unsettles the certainty of inherited structures. The site, steeped in classical beauty and symbolism, shifts off balance. Pagodas, tiered and ornate, once unquestioned, are unscrewed and reworked in copper, aluminum, lacquer, resin, and wood. Not ruins, but rehearsals for collapse. A Subaru WRX tears through a track collaged from 3D-scanned willow leaves, a topological terrain partly airborne, partly submerged. Its engine intones a liturgy skewed toward the indecent. At the core, a sealed chamber offers no comfort, only the rough clarity of noise. The sound is raw, forceful, and exacting. A scratched psalm, a Taoist mischief, a refusal to resolve. The work holds its contradictions close, part sermon, part undoing, drawn toward the edge where language drops out and the body listens.

This project is generously supported by imagokinetics. Special thanks to project researchers Yanmo Zhang and Qian Xie.
Photo documentation: Alessandro Wang, Qian Xie