Tingyan Luo

My practice unfolds in tension between material resistance and inherited memory. Working with recycled glass and reclaimed silver, I let form emerge through gesture, fracture, and response—without sketches or finality. The process is tactile and uncertain, shaped not by instruction but by the quiet negotiations between hand, material, and time. Traditions surface not as reference but as sediment—internalized, fragmented, reformed. What I make is not taught, nor repeated; it is sensed, altered, and re-assembled each time. In a world where making is often dictated by precision or mastery, I seek the unteachable: the intuition of weight, the memory of texture, the rhythm of failure. This practice is my method of knowing—without certainty, but with resonance.