Water Remembers, 2025

This three-piece collection explores the theme of water pollution. Each piece reflects a different aspect of how water is affected, and how it speaks through the materials.

The Weight of Decay

Icelandic Wool, Corn Husk, Cotton Thread

This piece centers on a decaying ecosystem: riverside plants, crops that once thrived, and the slow death of systems dependent on clean water. Dried corn husks are integrated into the knitted wool, creating a texture that is both soft and brittle.

What the Water Holds

Weld, Cape Jasmine, Sappanwood, Madder, Cochineal on Merino Wool, Cashmere, Cotton, and Recycled Nylon Yarns

This woven work explores what lies unseen within water. Using the krokbragd technique, the piece builds color gradually in block-like patterns. It draws directly from dye experiments that combine natural dyes with metal mordants and pH variation. Dyes include cochineal, madder, cape jasmine, weld, sappen wood, cutch, walnut hull, sandalwood, henna, and onion skin. The colors move from light to dark, creating a gradual shift across the surface. This color transition builds slowly, like a quiet crescendo, showing how pollution increases over time—first invisible, then growing stronger and deeper.

Tension in the Flow

Natural Dyed Wool Fiber, Cotton Thread

This piece is made with felting and embroidery. Felting, a chaotic and sometimes violent process, shows the overflow and saturation, a struggle between the water and pollution. The piece shows the moment when pollution pours into water, soaking deep into its body. There is a sense of struggle in the fibers. The stitches move through the felt like currents. Pollution presses down, but the water pushes back. The two forces meet, creating a visible tension in the surface. It is a conflict between damage and resistance.

Pakistan Flood Response, 2024

Collaboration by Jing Pei & Yichen Pan

Data Source: UN Migration Displacement Tracking Matrix

Pakistan Flood Response

Recycled Nylon Yarn From Econyl

In 2022, storms and heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan caused widespread flooding and landslides across the country. Up to 33 million people have been affected by the floods and a total of 90 districts have been labeled by the Government of Pakistan as 'calamity-hit'.

This piece represents a total of 2,317,254 people temporarily displaced across 11 districts of Sindh province. The tufting patches represent the total population per district, with dark blue gradients representing higher concentrations. The orange woven squares reflect the concentration of displaced people in each district. Each square represents 325 people.

Breath, 2023

Breath

Felted Merino Wool

This motorized flower sculpture features petals of lightweight merino wool felt that gently open and close, illuminated by a soft, pulsing light at its center. The movement and glow evoke the quiet rhythms of nature, inviting calm and contemplation.

Woven textiles inspired by grasses surround the flower, creating a tactile landscape that suggests open fields and freedom. The piece offers a gentle space where materials respond softly to their surroundings and creativity unfolds with ease.