Yinuo Nie

This project began from a persistent question I couldn’t let go of: does energy continue to move after death? I kept returning to the image of the pomegranate in The Color of Pomegranates—bursting, decaying, yet quietly suggesting a new beginning. At the same time, I was drawn to the ancient Chinese jade burial suits, made to protect the soul beyond death. These symbols—pomegranate, jade, and microbes—gradually formed the visual language through which I began to understand the relationship between endings and continuation. In the process of making, I started to see the end of life not as a halt, but as a transformation—energy breaking down, releasing, and returning in a different form. I worked with bio-materials that felt alive: fragile, breathable, and easily degradable. Combining laser-cut bio-fabric with knitted structures, I built soft spatial forms that follow a slow spiral rhythm—stretching, contracting, unraveling, and reforming. Each shape responds to my curiosity about the invisible processes behind death: decay, microbial migration, and the circulation of energy. This project does not aim to answer what eternal life is. Instead, it offers an atmosphere, a texture, and a quiet question: perhaps, an ending never truly happens.