Cheung Qin

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Wave Finding is a series of stone sculptures in progress, each a vessel of memory, each asking for a reciprocal act of remembrance. The stone in each piece carries its own story, a history of being cast off, left behind, deemed waste in the aftermath of construction and repair. Reclaimed, they find new purpose.

Their patterns and shapes are drawn from meteorology and hydrography maps, maps that fix us in place, help us understand our surroundings, capture a moment in time. Scientific maps, in particular, mark a world in motion, a fleeting record of tides, currents, and pressures. Here, the patterns themselves become anchors, offering the audience a way to locate themselves.

Each piece is a quiet provocation, urging the viewer to consider our brief existence against the vastness of deep time. The stones have eyes; they have ears. They observe, they listen. They store. They still bear the shape of where we once were.

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Wave Finding

Fig. 1 - Wave Finding - Jae , 2023
Italian Gray Marble

Fig. 2 - Wave Finding - Jae , 2023
Italian Gray Marble

Fig. 3 - Wave Finding - Dione , 2024
Norwegian Blue Pearl Granite

Fig. 4 - Wave Finding - Dione , 2024
Norwegian Blue Pearl Granite

Fig. 5 - Wave Finding - Dione , 2024
Norwegian Blue Pearl Granite

Fig. 6 - Wave Finding - Toha , 2024
Persian Red Travertine

Fig. 7 - Wave Finding - Toha , 2024
Persian Red Travertine

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ROCK PAPER SCISSORS

Wood holds the rhythm of seasons. Metal, shaped by fire, carries light. Rock, dense and still, is both foundation and echo. Like the game, these materials meet—not in opposition, but in elemental balance, each responding to simple acts of manipulation.

In this collection of furniture and sculpture, wood rests, metal stretches, and rock floats. A chair offers pause, a table creates space for exchange. Through use, these materials shift—not just in form, but in meaning.

ROCK PAPER SCISSORS turns interaction into process. Balance, choice, and play shape the experience, where familiar materials take on new roles, and each piece suggests another way forward.

Feb 15–Mar 6, 2025, daily from 9:00am–9:00pm
Wiesner Art Gallery
E15, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

The Dust Between Our Nails and Fingertips digitally engraves a slab of stone to mimic petroglyph handprints on mountain cliffs; it asks if the toil of a machine can transmute the emotive gravity of handprints made over thousands of years.

The project features a custom CNC stone carver in an anthropomorphic frame, posing as a creature suspended between past and present. Influenced by quarry stone cutting techniques, a custom diamond tool produces markings akin to those created by a human fingertip, slowly etching out a stone slab, turning solid to dust, and leaving marks of labor.

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