Midnight Market is an ceiling installation inspired by Asian night markets, mahjong parlors, bilingual street signage, and dense urban corridors. Over 65 yards of red voile fabric, glowing lanterns, and suspended advertisements transformed the space into a colorful passageway filled with warmth and movement. The signage throughout the installation drew from Hong Kong-style storefront advertisements, Chinese typography, and mahjong tiles. Presented during The MAHJ on May 23,

Shuffling Hands is a projection mapping installation created for The MAHJ on May 23, 2026 at Distribution Hall in Austin, Texas. Large-scale videos of hands shuffling mahjong tiles were projected across the building’s exterior, welcoming over 800 attendees into an immersive celebration of mahjong, community, and cultural connection. In many southern Chinese dialects such as Cantonese, mahjong is also referred to as “sparrow,” a name inspired by the bird-like clacking sound o

Gradient Garden is an interactive installation composed of 192 hand-folded origami tulips arranged in a cascading rainbow gradient across a handmade pegboard. Each flower rests on wooden dowels at varying heights, creating a shifting field of color, texture, and depth. Visitors are invited to gently pick up, hold, rearrange, and return the flowers, allowing the garden to subtly change through touch and interaction. The work explores care, participation, and the relationship b

If trees were to talk, they would talk at night When daylight work is done and only respiration remains Human and oak breathe in parallel, singing the same carbon tunes IF TREES COULD TALK is a site-specific sound and light installation created for Mi Casa Es Su Teatro 2026 and installed in the Mishpocha Woods compound in East Austin. As the sun set, the piece gradually came alive with slow, sound-reactive projections cast directly onto two oak trees. Voices, footsteps, and

The Night Market Interactive Painting Mural was a 16x8 foot stained glass inspired community artwork designed and led by Cathy for The Lunar Foundation's NightMarket.Fun 2025 event. Using a projector and 1.5 inch tape, Cathy directed small rotating crews to map out a detailed geometric design featuring a moon, flowers, and the text “The Lunar Foundation” onto large wooden panels, with materials sponsored by Jerry's Artarama. During the event, attendees of all ages chose from

QR Photobooth is an interactive media piece that turns visitors into encoded self-portraits through real-time video, face tracking, and dynamic prompts. The browser-based photobooth invites participants to perform for the interface as their live image and words are recomposed into fully functioning QR codes, each one uniquely colored by the participant’s camera feed and rendering identity as both body and data. Developed by Cathy Le, the work reflects on how everyday vision s

This working clock sculpture embeds QR codes shaped like numbers into each hour slot, generated using a data loss-tolerant algorithm that manipulates QR code error correction to seamlessly incorporate numerical symbols into the design without breaking scannability. Each code links to a custom web-based narrative stage from the Hero’s Journey, turning the passive act of checking the time into an interactive exploration of myth, transformation, and everyday introspection throug

Wish Flowers is a large-scale art installation that reimagines the traditional Asian practice of using joss paper, which is typically burned to send wishes to passed loved ones. While this custom holds deep cultural significance, it poses environmental challenges, such as air pollution and safety hazard. This project offers a modern twist, transforming the ritual into a celebration of growth and renewal by turning wishes into flowers. Participants are invited to write their

A hand-painted QR code created from sampled tones of my own skin and hair, linking to a website of video stills and poetic reflections filmed across Austin, TX. Originally displayed on a CRT television inside a repurposed city bus for the GUTS+ showcase, the work explores identity, visibility, and the translation of the self into scannable systems. Displayed inside a repurposed city bus for the GUTS+ showcase

The GUTS+ Bus was a sound-reactive projection mapping ontop of a decomissioned city bus created for the GUTS+ Showcase as part of the CATS+ art residency, where visuals distorted live in response to audience noise and synced music. The project explored collective interaction through light, sound, and large-scale responsive environments. The artist walkthrough and process was documented as a CATS+ wiki article: Large-Scale Reactive Projection Mapping with TouchDesigner