Cheng Xie/ Collage Art

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'I make work about what happens when systems break down—when empathy becomes too much, when language stops working, when design no longer feels safe. I start from personal emotion: exhaustion, overstimulation, or the quiet violence of being too sensitive. From there, I look outward—at how these feelings reflect larger cultural and digital structures.

I use video, text, material textures, and narrow formats that feel both intimate and constricted. I’m drawn to slowness, to fatigue, to the moments people usually skip. Sometimes the work is quiet. Sometimes it refuses to explain.

I don’t aim to comfort. Instead, I want to hold space for discomfort, for limits, for all the things we usually hide behind clean interfaces and polite language. My work asks what we must protect in ourselves, and what we can let go of, in order to keep feeling at all—to witness, even when it hurts.''