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ORIENTAL SURGE

Project - Residence

2026 - XIAN

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"Chang'an Folding Dreams: Eastern Whispers in Western Realms”

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East meets West through two intertwined paths: Chinoiserie—Europe's romantic 18th-century dream of the Orient; and Eclecticism—freely reconfiguring symbols from both worlds into contemporary expression.

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"A Dialogue of Imagination and Reconstruction"

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Chang'an Folding Dreams embodies this dialogue. Tang grandeur travels west, weaving Eastern imagery into European court fantasies. Dragon scales entwine with acanthus; cobalt blue drifts over Versailles; Chinese negative space rests in gilded frames.

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Not replication, but resonance. Order as warp, fantasy as weft—a frozen, distant, sweet dream of the old East. Space becomes a vessel: carrying romantic misunderstandings of the past, while reflecting the boundless creative freedom of the present.

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