Digiscape - Synchronic Tides

- 2025

Project Type | Interactive Installation

Credits:

Visual Design &  Programming | Ke Jyun Wu
Collaborating Gradient Artist | Hsieh Chen Lin ( @damonxart)


This artwork was exhibited in the exhibitions below
2025 | Unfolding, Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Xinyi Place A9, Taipei
2025 | BenQ Color Fidelity Lab, Beijing
2025 | DIGMEGA, 3788 Light of Asia screen, Chongqing
2025 | Light Box No.3 - The Third Space, DG Center, Taipei

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An interactive installation where you control the wind with your hands.


🌈🪟Stained Glass🪟🌈
I walked into the Basílica de la Sagrada Família and got hit by light.

Not metaphorically. The sun came through the stained glass and the whole space turned into color. The air had color. I just stood there. I don't know how long. I remember thinking that I'd seen stained glass before, in photos, in other churches, but I'd never been inside it like this. The difference between looking at light and being swallowed by it is enormous.

When I collaborated with Hsieh Chen Lin (@damonxart), we reimagined stained glass in a new way. His gradient work turned it into something alive — an infinite, flowing pattern that feels like it has no end. Together, we found a way to bring this timeless medium into the digital realm.

🌪️🍃Whirling Leaves🍃🌪️

The other half of this piece comes from something much smaller. I've been watching leaves spin in the wind for as long as I can remember. My house in Taiwan is at the foot of a mountain, so there's always wind, always leaves. When I was a kid, I used to pretend I could control them with my hands. Invisible force fields, like a superpower nobody could see. I'd stand there genuinely concentrating, willing the leaves to change direction.

I still do it sometimes. Not the concentrating part. Just the watching. There's something about a leaf caught in a gust that makes me stop whatever I'm doing.



What if you actually could control the wind with your hands?

Synchronic Tides puts those two memories together. That became the visual language. The leaves became the interaction — your hand movements control how they fall, swirl, scatter. The two shouldn't work together, stained glass and falling leaves, but they do. Maybe because they came from the same place in me: moments where I was paying such close attention that everything else disappeared.

It's not a complicated piece. It's two things I can't stop thinking about, built into a space where you get to feel them at the same time. If that changes how you look at the next leaf that blows past your window, I've done my job.

Kaleidosc ope, created by Hsieh Chen Lin, a distinguished gradient artist

Neon light, created by Hsieh Chen Lin, a distinguished gradient artist