A sensory ritual. A digital dreamscape. A soft rebellion.

Tea Time for Your Soft Body is an immersive installation reimagining the tea ceremony through diaspora, tenderness, and quiet resistance. Rooted in my ancestral province of Fujian, the work draws from two pivotal rituals: gong fu cha—a slow, deliberate practice of tea-making—and jing cha, the wedding tea ceremony that marks a woman’s transition from daughter to wife. Guided by the ‘Soft Body’—a fluid, shifting self—the work invites slowness and presence through tea ritual, meditation, surreal animation, and layered soundscapes.

Created as part of CuriousWork’s Testing Ground creative development program.