Installation · 2023
Amor Fati
Amor Fati draws on Nietzsche’s idea of loving one’s fate and the Tower of Babel as an image of ambition held in tension with reality. The installation transforms that tension into a monumental but fragile body of painted kites.
Medium
Steel frame, hand-painted kites, acrylic pigment, hemp rope
Scale
Approximately 5 × 3 metres
Role
Concept, image design, rendering, structure, material experiments
Collaboration
Group work with Wu Yifan
01
From drawing to structure
The work developed through spatial sketches, structural measurements, material tests, and the repeated act of painting. Each kite became both a unit of construction and an individual fragment of a larger image.
02
A changing installation
Installed inside an abandoned circular building, the work shifts between tower, suspended chain, and atmospheric event. Smoke and fire introduce impermanence into a structure built from repetition and effort.
Complete project
Read the project in full
All 5 pages, grouped into chapters for web viewing.