The Force Within Crevices

  • Dates
    2025 - Ongoing
  • Author
  • Location Shanghai, China

This series is a visual investigation of awakening from below: overlooked gestures and textures accumulate in fissures, ambiguity, and time. It is not a declaration of power, but an unfolding of force long hidden—pulsing quietly yet undeniably alive.

Over nine months, this series began from subtle gestures—sweeping, arranging, the needle’s delicate intervention—and gradually entered the textures between natural matter and abstraction: branches, grass, moss, water surfaces, trunks. It investigates how force germinates in low states—those overlooked, obscured, yet quietly thriving within crevices, ambiguity, and accumulation.

I am drawn to the reflection behind detail: for me, still life becomes kinetic stillness—seeming stillness harboring rhythm, restraint that holds tension, softness that conceals strength. It is a resilience, a delight in invisible dynamics, where force quietly materializes through shadow, fissure, and time.

This body of work is not about asserting dominance, but about inviting perception: even in the faintest corners, force pulses quietly. Power does not always manifest in the obvious; it often lies latent in darkness, in slowness, in hidden cracks. Low states are not weakness, but the deepest form of contest. Female experience is often placed in these crevices—constrained, overlooked—but there, the most complex and resilient energies are born.

© BALLOON - Sweeping · First Pulse               • A sweeping gesture against chaos, where latent force begins its pulse.
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Sweeping · First Pulse • A sweeping gesture against chaos, where latent force begins its pulse.

© BALLOON - The Needle · Subtle Incision• The needle pierces lightly, revealing tensions beneath the surface.
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The Needle · Subtle Incision• The needle pierces lightly, revealing tensions beneath the surface.

© BALLOON - Threads · Entwined Order•	Threads entwine, weaving order and latent constraint.
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Threads · Entwined Order• Threads entwine, weaving order and latent constraint.

© BALLOON - Air Hammer · Visible Void.          • Air swells into form, momentarily giving shape to invisible force.
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Air Hammer · Visible Void. • Air swells into form, momentarily giving shape to invisible force.

© BALLOON - Morning Dew · Fleeting Renewal•	Dew crystals gleam—momentary brilliance concealing renewal.
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Morning Dew · Fleeting Renewal• Dew crystals gleam—momentary brilliance concealing renewal.

© BALLOON - Winter Branch · Latent Tension•	A bare branch stands still, storing latent force beneath.
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Winter Branch · Latent Tension• A bare branch stands still, storing latent force beneath.

© BALLOON - Pins · Force in Inches•	Tiny pins converge, releasing force in compressed bursts.
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Pins · Force in Inches• Tiny pins converge, releasing force in compressed bursts.

© BALLOON - Wind on Grass · Gentle Edge•	Grass bends in wind—softness reveals a hidden edge.
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Wind on Grass · Gentle Edge• Grass bends in wind—softness reveals a hidden edge.

© BALLOON - Underflow.                                   •	Currents surge beneath the surface—silent, latent, immense.
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Underflow. • Currents surge beneath the surface—silent, latent, immense.

© BALLOON - Splash · Echo of Surge                       • A splash erupts—echo of submerged surge made visible.
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Splash · Echo of Surge • A splash erupts—echo of submerged surge made visible.

© BALLOON - Image from the The Force Within Crevices photography project
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Shell Shadow · Gestating Force• Shell contours, moss and rings overlapping—force gestates in ambiguity; resilient growth layered by time

© BALLOON - Image from the The Force Within Crevices photography project
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Overlapped Trunks · Palpable Brilliance • Overlapping trunks unveil radiant textures—force made tangible through the interplay of nature and fabrication.