Yugen - ‘Elemental Embodiment’

Steel, porcelain, fibre, glass
350cm x 350cm x 400cm

Conceived for two hatted restaurant Yūgen, this suspended work translates abstract forces and states into a materially immersive field. Two thousand hand-sculpted porcelain components are arrayed within a tensile framework of steel, fibre, and glass, forming a hovering strata, a dispersed topography of points and intervals, to explore how mass can be made to hover, how stillness can imply movement, and how a field of small, contingent forms can collectively alter the perceived gravity and temperament of a room.

The project emerges from a sustained engagement with a fivefold schema of manifestation, approached through material behaviours: weight and pull, flow and redirection, ignition and intensity, expansion and circulation, attenuation and suspension. The installation acts as a spatial register of interacting forces, subtly recalibrating how the room is sensed and inhabited.