web experiments and browser lab

Explore all the sites here. In early 2024 I embarked on a personal challenge to make a website a day. The criteria for the websites are as…

A SPAMtember project

SpamMail was a small project created for SPAMtember, a week-long hackathon run by my good friend Shuang Cai. SpamMail is a mashup of the…

RWET Assignment No. 4

This is a poem that forgets itself every time you try to remember it. Written about retrieval-induced distortion, this poem reflects the…

Neopixel Candle

I LOVE CANDLES. I have so many candles. One of my favorite projects from last year was based on interacting with fake candles. I also make…

Exercise in parametric design & CNC fabrication

I wanted a catch-all table by my front door. It’s a narrow space with a few requirements: Fits in this area (14 inches wide) without…

experiment in frames

Laser-cut acrylic frames on film photographs. Photographs taken on Kodak 400. 1/16” translucent white acrylic 8x3mm circular magnets

A 49 day project in daily practice

Over the course of 7 weeks over June-August 2022, I joined a cohort of ITP and ITP Camp students in a 49 day challenge to thematic work…

An exploration in injection moulding for PLA recycle processes

Presented with a challenge to re-think plastic recycling, I collaborated with Jinny Kang to create a proposal for PLA recycling via…

Paper explorations of digital concepts

A test in expressing flexbox attributes in physical, paper form. https://youtu.be/25ZiCM44-co

Proof-of-concept for physical-digital interactions

I seem to have a bit of a theme with plants; here’s a plant that lives somewhere in between the digital and physical world. Arduino code is…

A test in expressive mechanics

This week’s prompt: “Make an … object that expresses emotion towards a person”. Sneaky Houdini is a cute little rabbit with a big…

A collaboration with Shirley Wu

Bloom Together is a collaboration with Shirley Wu exploring the use of light as an interaction tool. Roughly fabricated to resemble a small…

Custom coasters with map engraving

Excellent gifts and not too hard to make! Great for a long-distance couple.

An AR Diorama

Collaborators: Francisco Navas and Josephine Wang Original Art: Gabriel Alcala Artist Gabriel Alcala created this beautiful piece, a diagram…

Candles call the spooky serenade

This piece evolved into my larger project, Grim Grinning Ghosts. Read more about that piece as it was created for the ITP 2021 Winter…

A little stop motion project

This week, we experimented with some stop motion! I worked with Tash Trebisacci to create these tiny little animations. To continue my…

A small custom puzzle with engraved imagery

A first-try at custom puzzle creation.

A mechanized diorama

And here it is! Project 1; a sweet little nighttime diorama! It might be a bit of a little escape for me, living here in a big city. See…

A 3D printed project about a cat

Earlier this month I moved across the country to attend NYU ITP, the 2-year Interactive Telecommunications Program. This has meant leaving a…

A desktop stand for the DJI Pocket 2

Stand modeled in Solidworks, 3D printed for desktop docking a DJI Pocket 2. Modeled to provide a closeup desktop recording angle while…

Fog is a series of photos exploring things half-seen, as if through a foggy window or a pane of frosted glass. Sometimes, things that are…

projection mapping onto soft bodies

Soft is an exploration in projecting on soft bodies outside of geometric space. The world of projection mapping is rectilinear. What happens…

shatter simulation

Shatter allows you all the anxiety of breaking your screen, with all the satisfaction of having done it on purpose. This experiment…

geometric embroidery

In Stitches, I want to take embroidery in a direction that is often not explored with the medium. Embroidery is typified by round bodies and…

3d rendered mo-cap

This project aims to explore different outlets for artistic rendering of dance movement. Here, motion captured dancer movement is visualized…