horizontal stillness,
Vertical return

I am drawn to beds as a paradox: they are cages of consent - places we willingly enter for rest, love, and refuge - yet when choice is removed, they become sites of illness, confinement, and vulnerability. The same horizontal space can hold birth, joy, exhaustion, intimacy, recovery, and death. In the simple motion of climbing in and out of bed, a lifetime quietly unfolds.

The bed and its surroundings are subtle self-portraits of a person. The size and shape of the bed, the objects placed within reach, the decorations, colours, textures, and light - they all quietly reveal life stages, cultural backgrounds, routines, and preferences. I am fascinated by how a universal structure can contain such diversity, how the same human gesture of rest and raise can exist within radically different worlds.

Every bedroom starts with a handwritten invitation. Participants decide how their bed or bedroom is represented, shaping the boundaries of what is visible. Each person is also asked to choose one object they would take with them if they had to leave this home and never return, shifting the work from looking at space to listening to memories. The project unfolds across bedrooms in Hong Kong and the United States, tracing how intimacy travels across distance and culture.

While the project results in photographs, the work is equally about process: the act of asking, the consent given or withheld, the shared time within a room usually unseen by others. In this sense, the project operates as a relational practice, where intimacy, trust, and care are not byproducts, but the material itself.

Through these interiors, I trace both difference and sameness: the universal rhythm of horizontal stillness and vertical return, and the different stories that unfold with such.