// 二天性 SECOND NATURE: Adaptation and Biomimicry //

2021
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Hydrophyte leaf patterns, water adaptations suspended in air. The fractal ribs create pockets that allow the leaves to float above the surface of the water. The Victoria amazonica was also Inspiration for Joseph Paxton’s design for the Crystal Palace in 1851. Adaptations in nature finding their way into architecture, research for new robotic forms in Flora Rearing Agricultural Network. 

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Learning shelter, communal thinking, escapist magical realism

witness & unfurl -- terrestrial microbial worlds -- ( shelter-in-place ) //

// Exploration vs deprivation //

Cognitive bias as sensory deprivation, a form of sense-making based on reduction.

Art-making as developing what I think and feel before there are words to articulate it, a form of world-building built on sensory exploration.

www.sougwen.com/sketches

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Hot Hatchling Summer explorations in co-regulation pre-molt; random May; back to New York in June
July 7, 2026
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The body is a generative system, 2025. Spatial data, custom RNN model + robotic system, LED mesh One of several new works exhibited at my solo show Ecologies of Becoming …
July 7, 2026
© 2026 Sougwen Chung / SCILICET.
𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘳𝘵
drawing alongside robotic systems since 2015
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© 2025 Sougwen Chung / SCILICET. 
embodied collaboration; metamorphic ecologies.
For press and collaborations: ⇢office@scilicet.xyz

© 2025 Sougwen Chung / SCILICET.
embodied collaboration; metamorphic ecologies. For press and collaborations: ⇢office@scilicet.xyz

© 2025 Sougwen Chung / SCILICET.  
embodied collaboration; metamorphic ecologies.
For press and collaborations: ⇢office@scilicet.xyz

© 2025 Sougwen Chung / SCILICET.  
embodied collaboration;
metamorphic ecologies.

For press and collaborations: ⇢office@scilicet.xyz

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