Have you ever wondered what if we used the black gum dots on the sidewalk as a punched-card score for a music box—what would it sound like? I have. And I did.
What Four Pavement Tiles Outside MacLean at SAIC Sounded Like in 2026
2026. 4
Woven installation: 2.3 x 6.9 ft
Performance-activated installation
Digital jacquard (TC2), handwoven cotton and polyester; music box mechanism, punched paper score
Performance by Jae Choi @j_choi00 (activation of music box)
Video documentation by Artist Echo Huan @echo_huan
FoUNd Object R: Chasing the sun
2026.5.3
Ginger, purchased in September 2025, began to sprout after being ignored for a period of time. It died during the Chicago winter of 2025, became desiccated by January 2026
Dried rose, gifted by Chidinma @chidinma.nnoli on Mar 10th, 2026, celebrating the end of my performance class midterm.
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FoUNd Object R: 姜（僵）尸
A wordplay where jiāng (姜, ginger) + shī (尸, body) forms jiāngshī (僵尸, zombie).
2026.5
Ginger, purchased in January 2026, desiccated by March 2026, and was photographed in May 2026.
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FoUNd Object R: Compass
2026.3
Ginger, purchased in September 2025, began to sprout after being ignored for a period of time. It died during the Chicago winter of 2025, became desiccated by January 2026, and was photographed in March 2026.
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FoUNd Object R：If absurdity can ease the pain
如果荒诞可以减轻痛苦
2025.3.29
Knife, Clown nose
The other day I bought bunch of clown noses. I pray that my embodied pain can be like a clown’s performance, that all the clumsiness and misfortune is just an act, and what it brings people isn’t reflection, isn’t sympathy, isn’t sadness, but laughter.
那天 我买了一堆小丑鼻子，我祈求我具像化的痛苦可以和小丑一样，那些笨拙和倒霉只是表演，它们会给人带来的不是思考，不是同情，不是难过，是欢笑。
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Susannah Goodman @sgoodpottery x Echo(Qinyu) Huan @echo_huan
Rituals of Remembering, 2026
Fiber: 4 pieces of 27 x 27 inches, Digital Jacquard(TC2) Handwoven Cotton and Polyester-Cotton, Wood
Ceramic: Wheel-thrown and altered mid-range stoneware with glaze, artist-made laserjet decals and vintage chinapaint decals, fired to cone 5 oxidation
Found objects: masonry from Busy Bee Hardware building in Eastern Market, Detroit
Collaboration Statement
In this installation, we document the passage of time in two ways: the process of building and the process of decay.
Inside the vessel is a drawing of Busy Bee Hardware, a legacy family business established in 1918 and closed in 2017. The building, adorned with hand-painted signs, decays in plain sight under speculator ownership at a major intersection near Detroit’s Eastern Market. Fallen bits of the facade sit around the base of the vessel.
Echo has documented the creation of the vessel at four stages, translating them into jacquard loom weavings.
Through fiber, installation, and tactile processes, Echo explores randomness, observation, and association as methods of seeing and feeling more closely. Susannah uses the permanence of ceramic vitrification to memorialize places in Detroit which she loves, are in decay, or have been lost to demolition.
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