Indra’s Weave – Breathing Through Ruptures
The installation ‘Indra’s Weave: Breathing Through Ruptures,’ created entirely during my residency, unfolds across six sculptural constellations in copper wire. Each piece is born from hand-knitted weaving using knitting needles, and is subsequently subjected to an electrolytic treatment that mineralizes the metal’s surface, lending the sculptures a visual presence of great intensity and a materiality layered over time.
This project develops a series of sculptural works based on the cosmological image of Indra’s Net—a boundless lattice in which each node reflects the whole. Traditionally understood as a symbol of universal interdependence, the net is here approached not as a closed harmony but as an open and evolving system.
Hand-constructed from continuous copper wire, the latticed structures form porous membranes suspended between cohesion and dissolution. While the network suggests continuity and connection, subtle ruptures interrupt its geometry: nodes stretch, densities shift, and the weave partially opens. These disruptions create areas of tension where the structure loosens and begins to breathe.
Light passing through the porous structure casts shifting networks of shadows onto the surrounding walls. These projections form an immaterial extension of the sculpture—an ephemeral reflection of the lattice that continuously transforms with movement and changing light. The work therefore extends beyond the object into a field of relations in space, where physical structure, shadow, and void interact as interdependent elements.
Developed in Shanghai, a city shaped by overlapping cultural and historical currents, the project reflects on interdependence as a dynamic field rather than a fixed order. Within this field, rupture, difference, and emptiness become generative forces through which new configurations of coexistence may gradually emerge.
