Threaded Palms, Threaded Stars

At its centre is Queen Mothers of Eastern and Western Skies, a site-responsive textile installation that invites tactile engagement, and Blood Song (Fossil), a life-sized beaded nervous system activated through the performance Blood Song. Worn with a custom textile garment, the sculptural body draws connections between the anatomy of the nervous system and Daoist meridian pathways, examining fight, flight, freeze, and fawn as embodied strategies of protection, adaptation, and transformation. Rooted in maternal ancestry, the work reflects on anti-Chinese migration histories in Canada alongside the racialized fetishization of Asian feminine bodies.

Watercolour drawings extend across the gallery walls, dissolving boundaries between body, object, and its environment. A soundscape composed from recordings of ceramic sculptures, hospital alarm tones, and the artist’s mother translating their grandmother's stories accompanies kiln-slumped vessels that cast shifting reflections throughout the space, creating multiple points of sensory access. Through tactile, visual, sonic, and performative encounters, Threaded Palms, Threaded Stars invites audiences to consider how memory is transmitted across generations and how acts of making can become practices of care, resistance, and cultural continuity.

Working across ceramics, textiles, installation, and performance, Lux creates hybrid sculptural forms that engage the material histories of craft while challenging its inherited conventions and hierarchies. Their work blurs distinctions between the human and the more-than-human, the handmade and the constructed, exploring how objects become active participants in processes of transformation, intimacy, and cultural exchange.

Through gesture, ritual, and community storytelling, Lux's multisensory installations treat the body as an archive of grief, resilience, and belonging. Their practice reimagines craft as a living methodology through which embodied knowledge and systems of care are continually questioned, reconfigured, and renewed.