After moving from Hong Kong to San Francisco two years ago, I found myself immersed in a city where technology quietly structures everyday life, and where conversations around artificial intelligence (AI) are often framed in technical terms.

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This project emerges from a personal tension, an underlying existential crisis in my own encounters with AI. While its possibilities are undeniable, something about our interaction and use of AI remains difficult to articulate, a feeling that is both empowering and unsettling. VIOLET brings this ambiguity into physical space through digital collages, written correspondence with AI, and interactive installations.

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VIOLET takes its name from the last wavelength visible to the human eye, which represents the edge of human perception, beyond that lies the unknown. This mirrors where we currently stand with AI: as technological advancement moves faster than our comprehension, we are in new territories that we cannot yet map.

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This project becomes part of that navigation. Three human-AI relationships are staged: intimacy, control, and projection. VIOLET does not attempt to provide answers. Instead, it creates a space to sit with questions: what does it feel like to live with these systems, and what do these feelings tell us about human identity, value and purpose?