_{Dream Skin (Sheerly) (Installation view), 2024 Shisanwu / Sheerly Touch-Ya Warehouse, Glendale, NY}

_{Reclaimed polyester and Sheerly Touch-Ya hosiery are stretched over reclaimed warehouse window frames to form a series of semi-transparent standing planes reminiscent of traditional Chinese Pingfeng(屏风). Dream Skin (Sheerly) traces the precarity of the working body as it performs, hides, dreams, and deteriorates within systems of labor, culture, beauty, and capital. The windows encase juxtaposing found and transformed imagery derived from industrial, consumerist, and domestic spaces, paradoxically evoking an erratic passing of time and a nostalgic melancholia. A site-specific reading accompanies the sculpture to explore the performance and concealment of labor, tracing a metaphorical "stage of production" and the working body’s desires for preservation or escape.}

<sub>The site specific reading reflected on the repetition, cadence, and ritual of labor, interspersed with three passages of 眼保健操 performances, each focusing on different acupoints.
眼保健操 (Yǎn bǎojiàn cāo) are ritualistic eye exercises performed every workday by students and workers in China to maintain their eyesight. They are a type of acupressure massage based on traditional Chinese medicine targeting specific acupuncture points around the eyes. It is designed to promote blood circulation, relax eye muscles, reduce eye strain, and recover eye function. The exercises are often guided, especially in schools and institutions, typically through pre-recorded audio or video instructions. These guided sessions help maintain uniformity and effectiveness in the practice, while the lady’s voice becomes an unforgettable, nostalgic nagging/hypnosis for generations.

The consecutive verses were performed at the New York Poetry Festival hosted by Poetry Society New York on Governor’s Island on July14th 2024.</sub>