Life, Death, and Wearing Me Thin

Life, Death, and Wearing Me Thin decodes the cultural and symbolic significance of Nüwa, a mythological serpentine deity, by proposing that such figures act as foundational blueprints for both contemporary femininity and the evolution of new technologies.

In this work, I approach women's identity as a computational process. Using an interactive 3D multiplayer environment, driving animation, and code, I generate female figures whose bodies deform as they are stretched across a field. Moving with clay-like fluidity, each iteration anchors and establishes its self-made space by continuously defining its own boundaries while navigating the parameters imposed by others.

The underlying digital structure of mesh and code frames the female body as a site of immense structural power. A physical intelligence born from ecological necessity. Rather than a static form, the body operates as an active system, deforming and reshaping the topography of a virtual world around it. Once all the figures are restrained, the algorithmic logic respawns, triggering a new generative cycle, and the bodies begin working to find new pathways to wear themselves thin.

Through the repetitive mechanism of video, I embrace Nüwa's mythological creation of humanity as a reimagining of the regressive sense of status and space, a biological inevitability for women in art in a technologically advancing society. The work I have put into Life, Death, and Wearing Me Thin is intentionally reflective, self-corrective, and systemic, processing the trials of survival amid thriving against me, myself, and I.